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EveryScape provides Google Street View -like tours inside points of interest
A few days ago I posted something about Google planning to take Street View to businesses to let you look at them from the inside. Commenter Neil let me know that this sort of thing already exists commercially and pointed me towards EveryScape.
And indeed, I think this is probably what Google have in mind with the Street View pilot. You start off on a city street and then use 3d-looking arrow icons to navigate. Some of the arrows appear next to businesses -- once you click one of those, you find yourself inside that business, wandering around the hallways.
The browsing experience is not as good as Google's -- they seem to be using older technology which is pretty clunky, but it's a fun way to waste a few minutes. Everyscape isn't everywhere yet, but there is a list of 45 cities to choose from which includes Austin, New York, San Francisco,Washington D.C., Beijing, and Krakow. I enjoyed a quick tour around Boston, where Everyscape offers over 100 businesses you can peer into -- including Cheers!
[Thanks, Neil!]
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Subscribe to commentskevjohnFeb 17th 2010 11:18AM
Even if this worked flawlessly and looked superb, I'd still bet on Google for their massive amount of mindshare and their seemingly bottomless barrel of cash that they can use to make constant improvements with.
Best case scenario for EveryScape: Goog makes then an offer they can't refuse and sends them a big pile of that aforementioned cash in exchange for whatever technology they have that might be of use.
joeFeb 19th 2010 5:19AM
EveryScape is good eye candy, but slow as molasses and doesn't play nicely on Macintosh (for me). And it's all Flash-based, so it'll never work on an iPhone. StreetView works much better.
Another option, if you're a bit savvy (or know someone who is) you can create something like this all by yourself without having to hire an expensive "salesperson" at RealPlaces: http://realplaces.com .
It's not as fancy as StreetView or EveryScape, but loads much faster, and thankfully does NOT use Flash. It's set up more like a community user-generated-content site, so anyone can use it, with user comments and ratings. i.e. it would work just as well for sharing a favorite vacation spot as it would for businesses.
MwamemeApr 10th 2010 1:47PM
This is all about huuuge virtual tours, isnt' it?
http://www.virtualvisit.tv (for indoor virtual tours) and http://www.videostreetview.com (for country-wide immersive video mapping) might lead the way for what is about to be the future of StreetView!