I didn't care much for the narration, but perhaps that's because when I travel I prefer to explore things on my own. The captions and videos were helpful though.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you didn't have to follow the green track (though you miss out on the pictures and videos). I discovered it by accident, actually. At some point in time I found out that I had become disoriented and had been going backwards for some time. Rather than go through the entire track again, I wanted to see if I could take a shortcut. It works.
You know what would be cool? Incorporating some sort of "Choose Your Own Adventure" elements into something like this. Kind of like Myst, but in real-world settings.
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.
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?
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
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.
Honestly. This reminds me of the old educational software disks my folks would check out for me at the library back in the late 90's. And I mean that the best way possible!
A few weeks ago I purchased a Leap Motion Controller: one of those devices that tracks your finger movements and translates them into actions on your laptop screen. I was pretty impressed with the device's accuracy, but I ended up returning it because I didn't see how it had practical applications for my own work. After the initial excitement of moving windows with your hands (pretending you're in a sci-fi movie) fades off, the old-fashioned method of clicking is simply easier and more convenient.
Viewing this "Night Walk" demonstration, I felt an inkling of regret about returning Leap Motion. As others have noted, the experience is very immersive and exciting. The only thing holding it back, in my opinion, is the medium of mouse and keyboard. I wanted to move fluidly through Marseille instead of incrementally, through clicking and jerky motions of the mouse. If this kind of 3D / WebGL / geospatial content becomes more prevalent on the web, I can see a stronger practical use case for everyone owning Leap, or something like it.
I think for this use case the Oculus with it's head tracking would be a better fit, because when you walk in a city you don't really use your hands like you do with the LeapMotion.
It's true that Belsunce is at 5 minutes of walk from the Cours Julien and La Plaine where the night walk takes place.
This track is amazing. Not lyrics wise: neither the text nor rhymes nor the flow are especially good. Considering that it is a rap song these could be severe drawbacks. But the instrumental is so effective the track is globally awesome.
Wow seriously? There is some awesomely good French hip hop. Even without looking further than the IAM band, did you listen to "Demain c'est loin" [1]? Or more generally to their whole "L'école du micro d'argent" LP [2].
I'd be happy to share more French hip hop with anyone who wants.
Always appreciate the hip-hop links to listen to but I meant specifically it's the best video, not necessarily song :-) Know of any French hip-hop videos that come close to the cleverness of JDLM's?
Oh okay, my bad. I don't know of many hip hop videos, most of the time when I "listen to a video" rather than an audio file it's because it's a freestyle rap which was not recorded in studio but only in front of a camera. So no, I don't know of any real good hip hop video (French or not).
I think it is broken in Chrome on Linux.. unless it is supposed to be a series of stretched out looking pictures taking up a small portion of the screen that spin around on their central axis and flip upside-down when you drag your mouse, and you can only navigate with keyboard arrows..
That seems to be the "loading indicator". I was confused for a second, then it just faded away. I don't think there's a browser API to actually know wether the user has headphones plugged in or not.
Cool! Very immersive and this is coming from an oculus rift owner.
I was thinking the next step up from this would be to setup 360 degree cameras every 10 or so feet along this path and have them all record for say an hour. Then you could 'walk' from point to point and see/hear/track the city.
But I actually think this curated approach is much better as it helps you cut out the noise and tell a better story.
Neal Stephenson's "Command Line" comes to mind, where he talks about how experiences are distilled and summarized for an end user. I have a vague negative feeling toward this, but I can present no argument.
It works not on all Firefox. Just tried it out with Firefox on a Android tablet and it said I should download Chrome. Then I started it with Chrome on the same tablet and it crashed it?!
Wait a while and then the wear-headphones notification may eventually drop down off the screen. If so, then press the arrow keys and the thing may start playing.
Anybody can point to anything else "interesting" in the presentation than the "graffiti" and the technical side of making a lot of 360 deg night-shot panoramas with sound?
And is there a possibility to make the link to some particular spot?
(I can't imagine graffiti interesting to those who aren't themselves doing them. It's subjective, I know, and I respect that others have other views, I've heard about Banksy etc).
can anyone give me ideas\links on what HW & SW I would need to make something like this? Would love to make an adventure game with this concept! Cheers!
I didn't care much for the narration, but perhaps that's because when I travel I prefer to explore things on my own. The captions and videos were helpful though.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you didn't have to follow the green track (though you miss out on the pictures and videos). I discovered it by accident, actually. At some point in time I found out that I had become disoriented and had been going backwards for some time. Rather than go through the entire track again, I wanted to see if I could take a shortcut. It works.
You know what would be cool? Incorporating some sort of "Choose Your Own Adventure" elements into something like this. Kind of like Myst, but in real-world settings.