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Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
- buddym 14y agoThis thing is seriously cool. I really think using this kind of technology based on Street view or similar data sets could really create some very cool in browser games, maybe even with some social elements. Anyone up for the challenge?
- ajanuary 14y agoLooks pretty cool, but the embedded video keeps breaking after 2 seconds of play.
- jap 14y agoVery nice. Made a custom hyperlapse, but it's like driving around at 1000mph...
- divy 14y agoWe had to lock down the settings on the site to make it as light as possible. Consequently, you're limited to 75 frames. It's basically built for very short routes spinning around objects. If you want to do long routes or crazy camera movements, grab the source (https://github.com/TeehanLax/Hyperlapse.js https://github.com/TeehanLax/Hyperlapse.js) and roll your own solution. The API is really simple and versatile.
- moontear 14y agoThanks for creating Hyperlapse - it's awesome and is something I've been looking for! How is it possible to have multiple lookat point along a hyperlapse? Or would I have to stack multiple hyperlapses together to first look at this one point, then at the next point?
- divy 14y agoYou could play around with the Three.js camera object. We made a separate viewer for the video team that had more complicated camera controls (and higher max frame + zoom level).
- moontear 14y ago... and you wouldn't release that separate viewer, would you? I'm planing on using a hyperlapse for a recent roadtrip through the US, including photos. I also want to create a video from the hyperlapse and add the photos via AfterEffects.
- divy 14y agoYou get the idea with the dat.gui strapped example from the repo: http://tllabs.io/hyperlapse/examples/viewer.html http://tllabs.io/hyperlapse/examples/viewer.html
- rooshdi 14y agoPretty neat. I can imagine this syncing with gps navigation and providing street previews for drivers.
- ccozan 14y agoThe google maps navigation already does that, albeit only when you are closing in the target. But still very useful when looking for a restaurant or a company.
- rooshdi 14y agoI'm aware they show a snapshot of the destination upon arrival, but I'm not aware of any kind of functionality to see video street previews through the upcoming street(s) during any point in the route.
- devonbarrett 14y agohttp://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=1645778 http://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ans...
- rooshdi 14y agoThat requires the driver to manually shift around an area though. Something that automatically hyperlapses through the whole next street or so would be neater.
- jap 14y agoThanks, it does look better for short distances, but still seems very fast! Seems to be around 3 seconds for the 75 frames, I think I'd like to see it half that speed or less.
- divy 14y agoI should add, that's a maximum of 75 frames. We check if there are duplicate pano's on the same route and stagger them depending on distance, so you could get fewer frames. It's set to 50ms a frame atm.
- NZ_Matt 14y agoAh that'll be the problem I was having, some areas don't have a high enough frequency of images available to make a good hyperlapse.
- davidradcliffe 14y agoVery well done!
- peteretep 14y agoBet you could autogenerate simulator rides from this pretty awesomely... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_ride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulator_ride
- yvoschaap2 14y agoFrom the tool creators the write up: http://www.teehanlax.com/labs/hyperlapse/ http://www.teehanlax.com/labs/hyperlapse/
- neeee 14y agoThe Eiffel Tower: http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/#48.856680000000004,2.29355,48.85823278814567,2.294601923942537,48.85891,2.29687,11.999999999999986,80 http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/#48.856680000000004,2.29355,48.8...
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI didn't notice at first, but you can move the target in the map in the top-right corner to change the viewpoint as you travel. I originally assumed it was hardcoded.
- moontear 14y agoSame here :)
- glennos 14y agoDid anyone else here actually create their own? When it attempted playback, my system froze, had to force a restart which led to a looping kernel panic-reset. Powered off completely to fix it. Could have been a coincidence/indicative of a system issue, but not game to try it again!
- spicavigo 14y agoSomething I made and open sourced 10 days ago. Quite similar to this, except, very few on HN bothered to take a look. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5469218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5469218
- lisper 14y agoDon't take it personally. Getting noticed on the New page is largely luck of the draw nowadays.
- NZ_Matt 14y agoCool app, but I can see why it didn't grab peoples attention. It's not very clear what to do when you land on the page and there's nothing to explain what it does. I wasn't sure what I had to put in for the start and end location. Is just a city name ok? or does it need a full address? I'd suggest having an example location already selected. That way instead of asking the user to do something they can simply click the play button and immediately see what the app does.
- ctdonath 14y agoYou've got a nice interface there. Needs something to facilitate picking endpoints & paths with Street View data, else it gets frustrating fast. That is in competition with this thread, which features a nicely-chosen video sequence which includes non-automated focus on scenery features (like contrails). Seems another idea's time has come.
- usefulcat 14y agoI kept expecting the music to morph into Star Guitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM)
- wmeredith 14y agoF-yeah, Star Guitar! This is one of my all time favorite music videos. Once you figure out what is going on it's such a fun and amazing, "Ah ha!" moment and then it really keeps delivering throughout the whole video.
- franzb 14y agoAlso interesting is the making of Star Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0-wGbRqEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0-wGbRqEs
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- sebnukem2 14y agoDo you know or does anyone know what the music of the video is?
- johnward 14y agoI call this "Google Street View Motion Sickness"
- ctdonath 14y agoI call this "Daily Dose of Sheer Raging Awesomeness".
- mrgreenfur 14y agoWhy not link directly to the new tool?
- lisper 14y agoNever thought a cheesy robot doll could make me cry http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/11/address-is-approximate-a-google-street-view-stop-motion-animation/ http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/11/address-is-approximate...
- crazygringo 14y agoAmazingly cool, what a great "hack" usage of Google Street View. Incredibly creative! It occurs to me... I would love to be able to watch cross-country trips like this. Take me from New York to San Fran in 10 minutes, maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts? Take me an a tour through Europe! Could be an amazing tool to give people a real physical sense of distance between places.
- chez17 14y ago>maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts? You mean the entire Midwest?
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- umsm 14y agoBeing from the midwest, I agree :)
- tegansnyder 14y agoMidwest is where its at
- Taylorious 14y agoThe only boring parts are the parts below Michigan/Chicago, particularly Indiana... it's basically one giant field.
- andyking 14y agoI really enjoyed my time with my ex-partner in rural Indiana. Perhaps because it's just so different to anything we have here in Britain. Cities are largely the same wherever you go - London, Chicago, Sydney - they are all big towers, shops, bars, metro, money flowing around, and so on. It's when you get out into the country that you get a real flavour of a place.
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- timparker 14y agoHow do I export it to a video?! So so good - T&L on fire lately.
- Intermernet 14y agoCan I get confirmation that the small segment starting at 1.49 is somewhere in Australia? Probably northern WA, NT or FNQ?
- mgualt 14y agoThe 2011 video I referenced in my other comment was taken along Coorow-Latham road, in WA, with the same camera motions... Perhaps this one was also taken there?
- jojomcbobo 14y agoYep that's Australia, this is the road: http://goo.gl/maps/PtJyL http://goo.gl/maps/PtJyL Here's the shot list in order of appearance: Saskatchewan Florida Keys France Denmark Baja California Golden Gate Netherlands Norway Fjords Hong Kong Tunnel CN Tower Dublin Airport South Africa Sunset Netherlands France Poland Apple Valley, California NYC Manhattan Bridge, NYC New Orleans Australia New Zealand Idaho, USA
- jboggan 14y agoKoyaanisqatsi.
- visarga 14y agoIt's cool but I can't get a sustainable stream from Vimeo. It defeats the purpose of video streaming.
- forgetcolor 14y agotheir interface crashed my mac hard. using chrome. save everything before trying this out.
- jewbacca 14y agoSimilarly. Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on OS X 10.8.2. Not so much a crash as a lockup -- no mouse movement, except for a single frame update about 45 seconds in. I assume it's a WebGL problem. My logs are spammed with "kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error" and "UserEventAgent[235]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/1882: 0x3: No such process"
- mgualt 14y agoInteresting utility, and kudos for making it OSS! Something I couldn't help but notice is that it is very similar to a short film which played at TIFF 2011 called "Coorow-Latham Road" by Blake Williams, a 20 minute video work which played in the Wavelengths experimental section of the festival. A short clip of the video is available here: http://vimeo.com/26850823 http://vimeo.com/26850823 Amusingly, the artist has created another version of the video, now that hyperlapse is available: https://vimeo.com/63778677 https://vimeo.com/63778677 The original film, Coorow-Latham Road, is edited and manipulated from screenshots of a Google street view road trip along the length of a road in rural Australia. The camera rotates 180 degrees from forward to backward along the 20 minute trip. This may be a case where art inspires software, which is an interesting phenomenon in itself, or maybe it's a freak coincidence!
- ukandy 14y agoPanning following the contrails is beautiful. Very creative.
- abw12345 14y agoNightless, 2010 by Yuichiro Tamura http://www.damianoyurkiewich.com/en/nightless/movie.html http://www.damianoyurkiewich.com/en/nightless/movie.html