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by BatFastard 3495 days ago
Saying something is 3D is meaningless. 3D video is one thing, 3D models are totally different.

From what I saw in demo, it looks like they are generating simple 3D models from the photos. Which is pretty damn cool!

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Google Earth already has thousands of handmade 3D models, as well as auto generated models.

Here is an interesting quora on where Google Earth sources their models from: https://www.quora.com/How-are-the-3D-models-of-buildings-gen...