There’s absolutely no practical benefit for this whatsoever, but if you happen to have a pair of those old cyan/magenta 3D glasses lying around, Google maps now offers a “3D” mode for Streetview.
All you have to do is click the little man wearing the 3D glasses hile in Streetview, and the picture will go all blue and red. Once again – no practical use here, but it is an interesting path for Google to take.
[Thanks Nathan]
Beau Giles
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:00 AMI think this was one of their April Fools’ jokes for this year.
Rick Warneke
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:10 AMIts been like this since April 1st, I need to find some 3D glasses…..
Synook
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 11:55 AMIt looks like it will work, though – the parallax is clearly greater for the closer objects.
Namarrgon
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 1:24 PMIt does indeed work – but it’s not terribly consistent.
IMHO this is a “fake” effect added later on, based on estimated depths of objects from analyzing their position on the ground plane (road). Fairly clever trick, and not a bad effect, though it’s a little unfortunate that they had to make things “pop out” of the screen rather than looking through a window into the scene (I guess the reverse parallax doing it that way would show up too many problems with the depth-estimation technique).
Dustin
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 12:42 PMi miss google maps 3D.. still hvnt gotten my glasses and its gone..
burritos
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 9:30 PMDammit! . . My 3D glasses from ebay arrived today but streetview 3D is gone!