we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Posted on 09/30/2009 5:06:39 PM PDT by markomalley
Researchers from Georgia Tech have devised methods to take real-time, real-world information and layer it onto Google Earth, adding dynamic information to the previously sterile Googlescape.
They use live video feeds (sometimes from many angles) to find the position and motion of various objects, which they then combine with behavioral simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
They use motion capture data to help their animated humans move realistically, and were able to extrapolate cars' motion throughout an entire stretch of road from just a few spotty camera angles.
From their video of an augmented virtual Earth, you can see if the pickup soccer game in the park is short a player, how traffic is on the highway, and how fast the wind is blowing the clouds across the sky.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
We are at war with Eastasia, right?
Pretty soon I’ll have live google earth on my Dick Tracy watch. Maybe I can view things thrue the heads-up display in my glasses.
Thats it!! I’m lining my car roof with tin foil. Could google Army be Obama’s new civilian police force?
The eye in the sky......
You need to feel that, bro, not just say it.
I'll let it go this time...
watch those dangerous thoughts.
This is scary because it’s so visible, but one thing to remember is that Google is not putting up their own surveillance cameras everywhere, they are probably using existing camera feeds that are already present for other purposes. If Google is just now pulling some of these feeds together and integrating them, do you really think some agency like the NSA hasn’t already devised a way to do the same thing and got it up and running?
we've always been at war with Eastasia...
That's a good idea. Now they can spot the shiny roof anywhere.
markomalley wrote:
Of course, there is NOTHING to concern ourselves with...
We are at war with Eastasia, right?
o_zarkman44 wrote:
Thats it!! I’m lining my car roof with tin foil. Could google Army be Obama’s new civilian police force?
The eye in the sky......
You can always Opt Out with the Google Opt Out feature.
| From the desk of cc2k: |
“That’s a good idea. Now they can spot the shiny roof anywhere.”
Lining is NOT covering hehehe.
But we can be still smile big just in case.
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