[cclogg]

I wonder if someday we can get to the point where StreetView is a continuous flow... like instead of tapping the arrow and waiting for the next slide to load, you would just smoothly walk forward or backwards along a track using up/down arrow.

I guess it would be technically possible already, but Google would have to snap their images with much smaller distances, and make them load in much faster... space requirements would be huge lol.

[mankyd]

Microsoft's PhotoSynth has an impressive demo of this. Check out: http://photosynth.net/preview/view/31e5927d-af4b-4678-8bba-c...

[Blahah]

It seems like all you can do is play the sequence forward or backward - surely a simple video is much better than this?

[thearn4]

Very impressive! I'd be very curious to see what this would look like with streetview images.

[optimusclimb]

I think we have that already, but it requires you go outside :P

[cclogg]

But let's say I want to 'go outside' in Tokyo or Dubai, without having the money to actually travel there...!

[jamesbritt]

Can you ride a bike?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUp6oKOABc

[dudus]

This seem to suffer from the same problem. It's not smooth.

[jonahx]

Where can I find more info on Go's "outside" library? I'd like to use it on my next project. Do you know if any YC companies are currently using it in production?

[krilnon]

In areas where Google already lets you view 3D imagery, it's already possible for them to show you a crude, continuous StreetView. It's just that the UI doesn't let you angle the camera such that it's oriented at street/eye-level

[zodiac]

I've built a prototype that uses the phone's accelerometer to control google maps so you get a kind of 3D street view, but it only looks nice if you set your own height to be a few stories high. You can angle the camera at eye level, but the buildings all obscure each other.