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EveryScape: Google Street View killer?
If you were impressed with Google Street View, you ain't seen nothing yet. EveryScape is a new service set to launch this fall that presents a realistic 3D view of streetscapes and public places by putting together information from 2D photos.
You can navigate through the streetscape by clicking on green arrow buttons. Where information is available, you can also click on icons to find out what buildings you're looking at, which is a nice feature. There's a sample streetscape of the area around San Francisco's Union Square up on EveryScape's website. Here's a little screengrab we did (the graphics are actually a bit more fluid than the video suggests, but our video capture software prefers low framerates.
Based on the sample, the images appear to be more detailed than Google Street View, with no visible gaps between images.
EveryScape plans to add more cities, starting with Boston, New York and Seattle. While the streetscapes will be photographed by EveryScape photographers, the site also plans to use photos submitted by users to flesh out their offering
[via O'Reilly radar]
You can navigate through the streetscape by clicking on green arrow buttons. Where information is available, you can also click on icons to find out what buildings you're looking at, which is a nice feature. There's a sample streetscape of the area around San Francisco's Union Square up on EveryScape's website. Here's a little screengrab we did (the graphics are actually a bit more fluid than the video suggests, but our video capture software prefers low framerates.
Based on the sample, the images appear to be more detailed than Google Street View, with no visible gaps between images.
EveryScape plans to add more cities, starting with Boston, New York and Seattle. While the streetscapes will be photographed by EveryScape photographers, the site also plans to use photos submitted by users to flesh out their offering
[via O'Reilly radar]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
