I must confess, I might actually attempt to bake this as part of my latest project.

The goal would be to use a VR viewer such as the Oculus Rift, and the linked 2D to 3D image conversion tool to revisit places that you've been in, or places you've never been in
-- theircompetitor, May 08 2014

Converts 2D pictures into browsable 3D environments http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu/
[theircompetitor, May 08 2014]

Google Maps Wayback Machine http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/04/23/
partially baked outside recently [sophocles, May 09 2014]

So, essentially this idea is Photoshop on steroids?
-- normzone, May 08 2014


not quite -- the idea is that you are able to actually walk around and immersively re-experience a place where you've been (by having taking an ordinary digital picture)
-- theircompetitor, May 08 2014


The intent is good ("revisit places that you've been in, or places you've never been in") but the TNT (Tools & Tech) available today make the execution more like "watch a pixelated video game simulation of a real place" and less like "immersively re-experience" or " Wesley Crusher takes a weekend off in the holodeck ".

However, the idea does fulfill the category, and just because it doesn't ring my bell means little or nothing. There is probably a market.
-- normzone, May 08 2014


I'm doing a lot of work with the Oculus -- it is much more immersive than you might imagine. Granted the tech demonstrated in the link has lots of limitations, but it's actually pretty incredible nevertheless
-- theircompetitor, May 08 2014


And depending on how the T&T advances, we are either at the daguerreotype stage of a developing process, or stuck in the "we'll all have flying cars" phenom.
-- normzone, May 08 2014


Gets my vote as it includes missing out on the original mosquitoes, dysentery and vendors saying "For you I make special price"
-- not_morrison_rm, May 08 2014


See link (Google Maps/Earth Wayback Machine). You can already do that for popular public places.

That said, google doesn't yet map the inside of my house. So, I think it'd be nice for my kids, when they get older, to "walk around" their childhood home. So, I just take videos of us walking around the house & outside. If I didn't do that, then I could use your bakeable idea hear to stitch something together from pics.
-- sophocles, May 09 2014



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