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To this day this is the best experience I had in VR by far. I spent hours roaming the earth, it's truly amazing. It's sad that Google is massively underutilizin
by Adrig 3y ago
To this day this is the best experience I had in VR by far. I spent hours roaming the earth, it's truly amazing. It's sad that Google is massively underutilizing this asset.
- modeless 3y agoWhat should Google be doing with it?
- TheRealPomax 3y agoTeam up with microsoft and asobo.
- hackernewds 3y agobut what about capitalism?
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWhat about it? Google charges MS/ASobo a "friendly" license fee, and MS/Asobo get a feature they can use to attract more players. All parties stand to gain concrete dollar amounts, the very backbone of capitalism.
- modeless 3y agoThey seem to be doing fine on their own. I prefer to have some competition.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWhat's wrong with companies teaming up for specific individual products? In this case, Flight Simulator. You license the technology with friendly fees and collab for the life of a single product. Just like all licenses. (Also, no, MS/Asobo are not doing fine, their photogrammetry is renowned for looking like a molten hellscape, and the bing maps look pretty terrible compared to even plain gmaps, but it's MS so "it has to use Bing" =D)
- fetzu 3y agoI thought it was Blackshark.AI doing that specific part of Flight Simulator. AFAIK they are, or at least were looking for to, also selling that capability to other companies; and they are certainly not “vendor locked” with MS’s data..
- eob 3y agoAs a complete non-gamer, the ability to walk around the earth with a VR headset would justify buying one to me. There are so many cities I've always wanted to walk down the streets of!
- modeless 3y agoAs the parent comments mentioned, Google Earth VR already exists and it's awesome (disclaimer: I had a hand in creating it). It's as close as you can get to "walking down the streets" with current data. All the available 3D and Street View data is there.
- trafficante 3y agoFirst off, THANK YOU to you and the rest of the Earth VR team. You’ve brought literal joy to many people through your work. I brought my Quest Pro and a gaming laptop with me to visit a nursing home a few months back and took some of the residents on guided Earth VR tours of their hometowns/places that they remember fondly. I’ll never forget all the tearful smiles I witnessed that day, and it’s all thanks to you and your team. Quick question: are these new 3D Tiles the same as what’s in Earth VR, or are they higher resolution/newer imagery? The video demo linked upthread looks incredibly crisp, but I’m wondering if that’s just an artifact of seeing it in 2D (the upclose castle textures on flyby looked a lot more like what I’m used to from Earth VR).
- tonightstoast 3y agoThis is a great idea. It would be interesting if Google had historical view of towns so in 50+ years I could see what it looked like when I was a kid.
- modeless 3y agoThere is a time slider in Street View today https://blog.google/products/maps/go-back-in-time-with-street-view/ https://blog.google/products/maps/go-back-in-time-with-stree... I think in Google Earth desktop there is (was?) a time slider for aerial imagery as well.