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Mrs Figg wrote:you know Google Earth? well has anyone invented a set of virtual beer goggles that let you wander down a road as if you were really there? Instead of using the little yellow man, you could put on the virtual headpiece and go anywhere in the world. it would be fantastic. and in theory all the hard work with satellites has already been done.

To get the full effect all the streets would have be shot with stereo cameras to provide depth perception. It probably will happen with time (or somebody will write an algorithm to fake it), but we definitely can't say "all the hard work...has been done".

(btw, street view is not done by satellite. It's done by those multi-camera setups on top of cars that drive around. If they rejigger those right now with stereo then in a few years your dream could come true.)

halfwise wrote:

Mrs Figg wrote:you know Google Earth? well has anyone invented a set of virtual beer goggles that let you wander down a road as if you were really there? Instead of using the little yellow man, you could put on the virtual headpiece and go anywhere in the world. it would be fantastic. and in theory all the hard work with satellites has already been done.

To get the full effect all the streets would have be shot with stereo cameras to provide depth perception.  It probably will happen with time (or somebody will write an algorithm to fake it), but we definitely can't say "all the hard work...has been done".

(btw, street view is not done by satellite.  It's done by those multi-camera setups on top of cars that drive around.  If they rejigger those right now with stereo then in a few years your dream could come true.)

so I haven't invented an idea that will make me a millionaire then.  damn.

malickfan wrote:

azriel wrote:I was watching "Question Time" last night, BBC1, David Dimbleby, At Torquay. That's your neck of the woods isn't it Malick ?? or at least within spitting distance ? If you had a car or went by train ? Anyway. It got SO heated with the panel all arguing at once I had to switch over, "Newsnight" I think. Even Dimbleybum had a difficult job constraining them. I sorta like Anne Widdecombe but, my gawd, she chirped in whenever & the rest of the mob followed suit

Ha ha no, I'm down near Fareham, Hamsphire so about 3 hours from Torquay by Car (I don't drive), maybe 6 or 7 by Train.

I don't watch Question Time very much, as I usually get confused or angered by some of the nonsense shouted about by the public and panelists.

what's Torquay like, is it a nice place? would you recommend living there for example. does it have a beach? it looks like it doesn't have one on the map.

The Google Street View app for the Daydream VR headset is sort of like what Mrs Figg describes. The resolution isn't great and you have to push a button to zoom ahead to the vantage point of the next photo (similar to how regular Street View works), but it is fairly immersive. There's a relatively limited number of areas that they've recorded with enough different camera angles to make it possible to see something different just by turning your head, but the effect is really neat to experience, at least as a novelty.

{{Google Earth has a VR version }}

Mrs Figg wrote:

malickfan wrote:

azriel wrote:I was watching "Question Time" last night, BBC1, David Dimbleby, At Torquay. That's your neck of the woods isn't it Malick ?? or at least within spitting distance ? If you had a car or went by train ? Anyway. It got SO heated with the panel all arguing at once I had to switch over, "Newsnight" I think. Even Dimbleybum had a difficult job constraining them. I sorta like Anne Widdecombe but, my gawd, she chirped in whenever & the rest of the mob followed suit

Ha ha no, I'm down near Fareham, Hamsphire so about 3 hours from Torquay by Car (I don't drive), maybe 6 or 7 by Train.

I don't watch Question Time very much, as I usually get confused or angered by some of the nonsense shouted about by the public and panelists.

what's Torquay like, is it a nice place? would you recommend living there for example. does it have a beach? it looks like it doesn't have one on the map.

Never been there.

Eldorion wrote:The Google Street View app for the Daydream VR headset is sort of like what Mrs Figg describes. The resolution isn't great and you have to push a button to zoom ahead to the vantage point of the next photo (similar to how regular Street View works), but it is fairly immersive. There's a relatively limited number of areas that they've recorded with enough different camera angles to make it possible to see something different just by turning your head, but the effect is really neat to experience, at least as a novelty.

so they have already invented it?

https://www.facebook.com/The.world.birds.TR.16/videos/1052024948163137/

love Dennis

so much greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! its like falling into a vat of concrete.

maybe Blue knows the answer to this but can you protect Intellectual Property? do you have to have a patent.

it looks foamier up close than I realized.

{{Yeah I thought that too- rather worryingly what it reminded me most of was the white foamy stuff in the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers! }}

Oh yes
But don't worry a shot of CO2 from a fire extinguisher will sort that out
Watched "The Blob" last night with Steve McQueen in it, It was cheesy The Blob looked like a dollop of strawberry jam that had fallen off my toast

Mrs Figg wrote:maybe Blue knows the answer to this but can you protect Intellectual Property? do you have to have a patent.

I'm sure you know that a patent is to protect ideas, copyright to protect writing. If you don't register a copyright or patent you have no protection.

You don't have to register a copyright. If you can prove you are the originator of the works that is enough (copyright is also paintings, music, film etc).

Amazing how many companies don't understand how material can be used too. Example would be Nintendo Japan who put copyright notices on all sorts of online content which actually falls within fair use. They are doing more damage to their brand than protection with that stance these days.

don't you need an actual object or prototype for a patent?

my list of places I want to visit is quite small. I don't really fancy anywhere with malaria.

1. New York, I have to go there just once in my life.
2. New Zealand
3. Ozzhobbitstan, Sydney harbour
4. Capri

Mrs Figg wrote:don't you need an actual object or prototype for a patent?

You don't in the US, but patent laws vary from nation to nation. You do need clear drawings and descriptions (and preferably a knowledgeable patent attorney) to file though.

I want to visit is quite small- Figg

{{You appear, for some unfathomable reaosn to have left Scotland off your list Figg - we dont have malaria! Though we do have midges }}}

I have already been to Scotland. Too much wind, too much ginger and too much Scottish.

{{ The only one of those you can have too much of is wind! }}}}