My friend Eric just sent me this nice thought post where Steve Outing dreams of Google Maps integrating A9's Block View function. If you haven's seen Block View, check out this making-of video. Basically A9 mounted GPS-equipped video cameras to the tops of cars and drove through cities. The end product is a yellow pages with end-to-end snaps of street addresses, allowing you to take a remote stroll of the real world.
Last month O'Reilly's Make blog had a concept post on using Flickr to upload pics to the Web from within video games and virtual worlds. Second Life has its own internal version of this called Snapzilla, which works very well (and makes a good browse). Would it be possible to attach longitude and lattitude coordinates to pics taken in Second Life? Could this method be used to do an A9 Block View-style service for SL?
Look at what Flickr user kokogiak is doing in the real world, mixing shots from A9 Block View with Google Maps points and paths. Amazing:
Oooh! Good one. Yes, and I hope this will also extend mediacally (???). I joked with some friends about setting up an inworld webcam and beaming that to the world outside. If you could do such things in public locations (CAMERA FILMING ON LINDEN LAND: DON'T WANT TO RUIN YOUR PRIVACY, BUT THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS!) and have those streams playing from secondlife.com and 3rd-party websites.
Actually, you know what, it's funny you mention this because Trimda Hedges has been doing such a thing lately -- I think he's been talking to Reuben Linden about it too. Let me think of what else is happening here... well there's his involvement in the Discovery Hunt project which links him to Cristiano Midnight, creator of Snapzilla. Which is very cool indeedlyso.
One thing I wish SL had was automatic camera mode or some sort of time-lapse shutter.
Posted by: Torley | April 23, 2005 at 01:26 PM
Torley >...setting up an inworld webcam and beaming that to the world outside.
We'll eventually do this for the Salons. Right now we're limited to around 50 attendees because of the lag when too many avatars gather in the same place. But when we can stream the event with audio and video out onto the Web we can have hundreds or thousands of attendees from all over the world :-) I've also spoken with someone who's looking into making SL chat and IM interoperable with Web-based IRC stuff so outside attendees can communicate in-world. Very cool new abilities.
Torley >Trimda Hedges has been doing such a thing lately
I saw this post the other day. Looks great! I'll have to get in touch.
Posted by: Jerry Paffendorf | April 23, 2005 at 02:21 PM
This is fantastic. Talking about taking snapshots of the realworld to create yellow pages and translating this idea to the virtual world brings a lot of memories to my mind. I once developed an approach to capture spatial cognitive of large scale virtual environments. The paper is available here
http://s91149240.onlinehome.us/ramloll2001/WebDoc/Pub/ramlollr_wayfinding.pdf
or IEEE explore digital library.
I would love to be involved in the implementation of something like that in SL. I am not familiar with the scripting language. But is it powerful enough to allow me to reimplement this concept.
Ramesh
Posted by: Ramesh | April 28, 2005 at 09:32 PM
Ramesh, thanks for posting this.
I'll send your question to someone who can answer it better than I can. Also check out this page on the Linden Scripting Language (SL's language) for yourself, too: http://www.sluniverse.com/lsl.html.
In the mean time, if anyone reading this has insights on using LSL to approach Ramesh's idea, please chime in.
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