City simulations

[dembumboclot]

This is amazing!

[jeanieviviani]

Darn, this is nice. this is EXCELLENT!!

[mikeccuk2006]

Go take more photos !!

[karamba5702]

Unavailable on the internet = does NOT EXIST.

[DamienZshadow]

Unbelievable...I mean I know the only limit to our technological applications are our imaginations but this is amazing! I never would have conceived such an innovative idea. I am seriously blown away by the concept...

[sylvur]

I can't wait to play the next Grand Theft Auto game that uses this kinda technology so we have a perfect 1:1 scale of reality as I drive around the city stealing cars and killing ho's !

[thereaperorsutch]

dubrovnik is in croatia,for those of you who dont know

[Keylimedelight]

im american what's a croatia?

[thereaperorsutch]

@Keylimedelight you really cant figure that out?

[Keylimedelight]

@thereaperorsutch its a joke my man, a tragic tragic joke.

[thereaperorsutch]

@Keylimedelight well,you got me going

[adsamcik]

Really amazing

[maceron4444]

assassins creed anyone? :D

[singleboy01227]

yeah or maybe you can shut you computer down, go outside and walk trough a real 3d world and have fun

[snailsonmopeds]

If you have the money to travel, shit head.

[singleboy01227]

aaaaaaaaaaaw now i feel so bad for saying that, maybe you should try second life

[NigelGriff]

@snailsonmopeds Should have gotten a better job.

[ariadarabi]

Hopefully one day google earth will be a game and you can walk around earth with accurate 3d models such as these

[timonix2]

yea, the technology are getting better faster then the worlds changing. so 20 years wouldn't be too unreasonable too at least see something using a similar approach to model the earth

[THEYAYAREALIVING]

fuck is this shit

[XANDERXXZ]

Why.

[PS11833]

@THEYAYAREALIVING favorites = 2 pac and other shit...yea sure

[TheTrueSong]

THATS INCREDIBLE. HOLY TETS. They did it so fast too... Kudos.

[ppdog27]

like

[paxcoder]

sketchy.

[timonix2]

hopefully they will start adding these 3d models to softwares like Google earth

[DarkForgottenUchiha]

Cool but quite sad and rather pointless lool

[qualin2k5]

ossum

[LTF85199]

wow!

[mate2000]

Basically if they took a car like the Google Street View car to go around the world (okay not just one car but maybe a lot), they could create an accurate map of the entire world......... Wow.... And now, do that in real time!

[Tressco]

***PLEASE WAIT! Building Matrix...***

[okachobee]

Assasin's creed 2 lol

[Saromatae]

"Hundreds of computers worked in parallel"?

In another twenty years you will be able to do this on your wrist watch!

But!

Seeing how I still can't figure out how to set the time and alarm properly on my wrist watch by myself today, I will no doubt be hopelessly lost in the world of twenty years from today.

[Ballslaw]

I'm that much closer to having a map of my city to play Halo on

[IcarusFlying]

omg i never even thought of that COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

[IdoApu2]

@Ballslaw

While I'm no fan of halo, I do agree with you on this. Imagine driving a Warthog down the Great Wall of China

[lygophile]

all major cities in the rich world are having their entire motorway infrastructure visually snapped for google earth anyway. that should provide enough photos for roughly the entire city.

[teemuruskeepaa]

It is hard to take Google's database for this project. It is so far from becoming global or making any deals with them. It is just a test

[DeimosSaturn]

This will be how cities in future video games are developed. Autonomous small helicopters will take hundreds of pictures of a city and any missed blank spots and the interiors will be improvised by artificial intelligence programs based on a input of hundreds of samples of real life interiors and architectural plans.

[paulhallart]

The global cyber mind is coming alive.Will it be benign or malevolent? figure it out.

It will have a tourist view of human habitation and for understanding how humans think, it will have trillions of You Tube commentaries.

[Kahzimir]

And it will say "First" all the time.

[2Luke]

oh my goodness... thats just incredibly amazing!

[newo1990]

that's amazing! =O

[zeryphex]

I like this guy's voice better than the weird girl's voice. I can't even tell which country she was from.

[marsCubed]

She was from Portugal.

[zeryphex]

Oh, I see.

[roidroid]

hello :)

[Supuhstar]

I used something like that once...

[zenith828]

old news

[ramslak]

this is aweosme but then spelled correct...(?)

[digitalbroadcaster]

Wow! 22 hours of jigsaw puzzling. Thankful they weren't using Windows Vista as by the time it has been completed, humans would have long ago been wiped out as a race.

[ScottKin]

Actually, the simulation was created via Microsoft Photosynth...which...runs on Windows Vista. Feeling somewhat foolish now, @digitalbroadcaster?

[digitalbroadcaster]

No. But I'm amazed at the software though! Thanks for the heads up on what it is. I never feel foolish where Windows is concerned. I just grin and smile before bursting into laughter. Vista. Microsofts illegitimate child of code, hence the frenzy to get Windows 7 out into the world. Me? I use Mac Snow Leopard.

[roidroid]

Read the article, it was NOT created via Microsoft Photosynth.

This is the next version of the technology, beyond the limited Photosynth.

[kickit246]

neat, wheres the girl speaker?

[Vivimord]

Do it for the planets please.

Go exploring Mars-!

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

i don't think there are many tourists on mars though.

[squidmanlol]

lol did you watch the video? its all based on many people taking random pictures from different points of view, which mars has a surprisingly resounding lack of.

[digitalbroadcaster]

I was on Mars the other day and didn't see one camera! :o)

[roidroid]

All of NASA's imagery is stored and publicly viewable.

You could recreate at least the areas nearby where rover's have driven.

[squidmanlol]

no, what i am saying is that there arent nearly enough images to create a hi res 3d model, as they did with the cities

[roidroid]

constructing a robust 3D model of scenery requires fewer viewpoints than you'd think.

watch?v=sz0UbHvEttI

[mrjubjub521]

this is incredible, i'd love to create a technology like this

[roidroid]

it's already here.

your technology would be redundant

[MastermindX]

WTF! This is incredible! Was it all automated?

[ShallowThoughts]

Nope, wasn't automated at all. It was done by hand by about 6 Gnomes and a goat. They did the math in their heads.

[SpelKille]

Amazing, and somewhat disturbing.

[legion696]

cool

[svartiske]

I'm curious about my own fascination with this. The imagery isn't very impressive, it's just very complex--almost as complex as that which it is rendering: life.

So, congrats to computers for coming closer to tracking surroundings like the optics system.

[javierenchina]

this is freaking scary, to think we already have all the data necessary to map out the whole world....

just need to process the photos...

and add this data to google maps...

[cornflakeclusters]

Oh my god, my hands just exploded! I am typing with bloody stumps, with amazing accuracy.

[WHATFUCKLOL]

i aggree

[allanseeder]

now how cool is that??!!! wow

[WuIzMe]

damn those algorithms are getting clever

[blabby102]

Amazing...

[ericksonboang]

the guy's voice is better to listen :)

[snivesz32]

It sounds like Brian Cox, is it?

[ggrizzle]

i thought the same thing :D

[EUROSUN1]

This new voice is much better then the old.

[aznsketcher]

wow....crazy stuff

[Lifeblood086]

That's wicked

[DrakeMagnum]

this seems exciting

[imshadi]

Wow! 10 Years ago I remember reading a similar idea, which was a scifi explanation of how the Star Trek Holodeck worked. I remember thinking just how daunting and nearly impossible such a task would be. It is always amazing to see dreams become reality due to human creativity.

[coldfustion]

or scary... :s

[imshadi]

I think it's kind of weird because the map is built on the images that have caught people's attentions. What is there and what is not says something about our minds. It may even be that the mental image one has of a place is stored very similarly. A collection of points of interest that only seems like the real thing because we never look at the other points. If we fill out the missing detail with made up details... would people even notice?

[Tsylord]

The guys voice is a lot better. I stopped watching these for a while because of "it's" voice.

[noraui]

60,000 photos!

[JixMa]

Pretty cool!

[04260076]

Hello...Where can I find these simulations?

[doogtoog]

I'm pretty sure it's Microsoft's photosynth. If you go to photosynth. net you can see the 3D models of Rome, the Taj Mahal, and a few others.

[04260076]

Thanks doog I will look it up

[Maracachucho]

second

[roidroid]

follow the link in the video description, then follow the links in that article.

[Koujinkamu]

I don't like this new voice...

[mafurock33]

incredible

[sl9guitar]

this guys voice is better

[PaXx]

NICE!!!

[Krashevil]

awsome

[johncantees]

thats amazing.

[MarktheSharkSheehan]

you could create a virtual world, and with more technology, you could venture into these worlds the future is awsome

[nsewx]

not likely.. and to be honest, if you have the money to go on a fake holiday you should save up for a real one.

[xsabirx]

daaaaauuummmmmm

[GabrielKnightz]

Two words, Holy S**t ! ! !

[slagish]

I bet the software could put together a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle in no time at all.

[jordancurk]

WOW! they took our advice! A NEW VIOCE

[PeterD2S]

google maps, street view

[Uejji]

Very decent idea. Have a spider collect all the panoramas for a city in street view That ought to give plenty of material for this software.

[Metroidzard]

So much cooler than google earth.

[TheDivineCellphone]

I LOOOOVE TECHNOLOGY !!!!!

[roidroid]

technology loves you too

<3

[TF2Pyrosux]

FINALLY they got a new narrator... that ugly black woman had sucha annoying voice

[PeXis]

Black?

Doesn't really sound like a black woman, so how do you know?

[TF2Pyrosux]

doesnt matter, this guy has a normal voice at least

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

You haven't seen her, so how do you know she's ugly and black? And who cares if she's ugly, or black? And how was her voice annoying in the first place?

[TF2Pyrosux]

the voice explains a lot about a person

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

Not really, you're pretty much just making shit up.

It's just as accurate for me to look at your text and assume you have red hair and were born in Germany.

[TF2Pyrosux]

i ahve blonde hair and i live in sweden... LOL red hair :D

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

See? You can't know these things about someone, because speech and appearance are two unrelated things.

[TF2Pyrosux]

i wouldnt say text and speech are the same

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

How?

[TF2Pyrosux]

in text you cant see what type of accent you are talking in, what way you are talking in, or if youre a smoker and some other ways i cant really get in mind now

[reptilezsweden]

Du ger Sverige dåligt rykte. Sluta nämna att du från Sverige.

You give Sweden a bad reputation. Stop mentioning that you are from Sweden.

[MDragonFang]

sweeeet

[champitadub]

very very cool

[soupisgreat]

Holy shit, this is cool.

[1019drummer]

very cool.......

[peterbriers]

photosynth already did it? :s

[DeeJayBounce]

This is not new, damnit. At least that damn women's voice is gone. I hope whatever got her ill kills her.

[reptilezsweden]

4 photos makes a very poor panorama. For a good result you user about 18 photos. Photoshop can do it but here it is 3D. Not exactly Photoshops strong point. Besides making a panorama is not even remotely the same thing as what they are doing here. Panoramas are for inside of an form (like a room). To make a simulation (like a product simulation) you need lots more pictures to be able to pan up and down as well as left and right.

[godsosall]

photosynth does the same think

[1RadicalOne]

This is breathtaking.

[MagicAccent]

Very impressive indeed.

[xXDominoXx]

wow now that is impressive.

[TheXcessive]

amazing...

[deadNIGHTCRAWLER]

i think u are mistaken they have a program that u can make a picture of 180 Degrees using 4 photos from arround the room, im not sure exactly that the program or picture technique is called

[shipuuga]

pretty sure it's called photoshop. if you take the pictures, and they don't suck, it'll do everything else you need for a panorama

[Aaberg123]

PTGui does the trick. It's called "Stitching".

[meadowsirl]

aw man, 3d mapping is very getting exciting

[pubtor]

scary

[FelipeSparx29]

that's pretty neat, and only get better in time

[szasz85b]

wow

that's cool

[luckystrke]

looks very arty!

like an indie animation film.

[niiidar]

That's amazing...

[djsuperstar717]

this is old news;

ive heard about this years ago;

[volumedealer1]

congrads,and shut the fuck up

[roidroid]

It's a gradually improving field of study.

Years ago they couldn't do it this fast, on this scale, and with this degree of accuracy.

[Whopzer]

Okay... So how's the cure for cancer going?

[ScottishAtheist]

That is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen.

It's like something in a holodeck, I have no idea how this works. It's so clever. It should be integrated to Google Earth, they already have so many places photographed.

[OntarioScienceCentre]

that's amazing.

[barakuda1111]

nice

[Jango370]

WOW that's awesome!

[MewHamHead]

Simply amazing!

[BillyBobsEel]

This is pretty awsome. Imagine if you had the program they've made, you could take photos where ever eg round your house and it could make it 3d, prehaps in the future people will be able to make games based in places they know this way.

[K25125]

You can do this with your house; it just doesn't make as solid of a model. Try looking up Photosynth, it's essentially the same thing as this, but all online.

[BillyBobsEel]

Btw thanks for telkling em about photosynth, its pretty cool. I've gone and made a few. (Search billybobsteele if you wanna see them.)

[Konve]

It was made using "a cluster of about 500 computers working in parallel." So yeah even if it's really cool, I don't see it being used full scale anytime soon enough.

[Aaberg123]

The processing and combining of the pictures took 500 computers, but the visual rendering of the same will be doable on any ordinary PC.

[roidroid]

This is something Google could definitely do to give better, more robust and complete 3D views to Google Earth.

They have the server power, and thx to StreetView (plus google image search, and Geotagged photos) they have the dataset.

They could fill in almost the whole Earth.

[gnailownz]

microsoft was developing this technology more than 2 years ago. the engineers there showed us a demo 2 years ago when we visited microsoft headquaters. surprised its only published now

[muranziel]

I remember that. It was called dragon something IIRC.

[roidroid]

the team previously developed tools which can create 3D models from a collection of photos, which subsequently evolved into Microsoft's Photosynth. But while that technology was good at using snapshots of single tourist attractions, it was unsuited to tackling larger projects, such as recreating cities. "Using the existing system it would have taken years to recreate a whole city," says Agarwal.

[iamcucumber1]

that is really awesome :D

[BloodyBBQ]

thats awesome

[email7321]

HOLY **** That's so cool!!!!

[xoANONiMUSox]

Dubrovnik? Yay! Thats Croatia! =D

im so freakin happy right now

[Shalek]

It looks really damn cool.

[TheNanoCube]

I saw a version of this software where they showed a photo taken closest to the viewpoint. Thus giving a poper image all the time. Wonder why the photos are transparent in this video...

[Jourei91]

Wow. o_o

[Shaunt1]

Like Google earth!

[housepanic]

cool

[charlieclown]

still looks pretty choppy. If they want to use it for a virtual tour it needs to have smooth textures like a sims game.

They should use this for city planning and archeological reconstruction.

[iambehindthemirror]

How do you know?

[iambehindthemirror]

Because there is no proof.

[iambehindthemirror]

So everything that is not proved is probable at 50% chance?

[63NY1]

how so?

[iambehindthemirror]

Do you understand what you're talking about? Everything that is not proved has 50 % chance? It's impossible, you add up 50% many times you get more than 100%. Nothing is probable at the chance more than 100%.