Google Street View Meets Video - Amazing

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52 points·jawngee··9 comments

Not long and you'll get porn movies shot like this.

Well since it's on HN, let me ask a question:

Since this kind of panorama video is shot by 4 cam in 4 directions, and rendered inside a sphere in Flash, so users can drag to different directions from a single POV.

It's like doing panoramic inversely, is it possible, that we shot it from outside a sphere, and the user drag the video to see the changing process of a single 3D object from different aspects?

Company presentation (evolution of their technology, 22 min, skip to ~8 min)

http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/GPU2009/1001-fairfield-immer...

Feels like I'm playing myst except things are moving.

Myst 4 is played exactly like this, actually. You're surrounded by panoramic pre-rendered video, and clicking where you want to move to takes you to a new panorama, analogous with the movement in the original game. (Myst 3 is similar, but it alternates between panoramas and pre-rendered video without doing both at the same time.)

Since the link is dead - how is this different from QTVR?

Autoplaying video. Worse, buffering autoplaying video that I can't reliably track down by tab.

Get NoScript.

Or FlashBlock.

But the problem of audio from an unidentified tab suggests a neat feature/add-on for future tabbed browsers: indicate when a tab is making sound with some animation in its tab/favicon. (This might be easiest for Chrome with its process-per-tab model -- which processes are making audio calls?)

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