[Geowanking] Open Street View

[Andrew Larcombe]

On 12 Jun 2007, at 21:54, SteveC wrote:

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> On 12 Jun 2007, at 19:59, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
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>> This is how you might want to mount your cameras:
>>
>> http://www.yotta.tv/
>>
>> Anyway, building panoramas is not really interesting. Think bigger  
>> and start building 3D.
>
> As a more general thing... I don't understand 3D as a UI.
>
> I spent a ton of time in 3D when the new hotness was VRML. I wrote  
> things to take a set of photos and magically turn them in to models  
> and so on. At its base it seemed like you spent 1000% more  
> development effort to make a 3d model of your building/city for a  
> 1% improvement in usability. You got some factor of whizzyness,  
> it's a great educational tool, but no real ROI in its own space.


I think the problem is we're still using mostly 2d technology to  
interact with these computer things which makes a 2d gui more  
natural. 3d will be great when we've all ditched our trackpads and in  
favour of immersive hardware - 3d headcams & gloves. Or a holodeck -  
whichever comes sooner.

Cheers,

A
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