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I love what Google has done with Street View. Taking the technology indoors just does something completely different for me than outdoor shots. In this place it lets you look at intimate details of what used to be other peoples' every day lives. There's so much to explore. Can any one read this blackboard? http://goo.gl/maps/zWAqm

I'd love to see a hack that lets one walk around in first-person inside an environment using Street View imagery, like a video game. Maybe the imagery is sufficient for that if used right.



I think it says

    学びもののまとめをしよう
    生活のまとめをしよう
    事業と休みの区別をしよう
which are kind of preachy statements about how they should run the class.. Keep your learning stuff in order, keep your lifestyle in order, have a clear break between classtime and rest time. I'd assume that it's a left over from when the class was studying for end of year exams perhaps? Since the earthquake came at the end of a school year.


"I'd love to see a hack that lets one walk around in first-person inside an environment using Street View imagery, like a video game."

There was a TED video in 2010 doing almost that: http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html


Sorry about downvoting your comment, did not mean to.


I just watched that whole thing. Very impressive.


interesting, but didn't microsoft started to try to map the world with that very same approach way before streetview?

i can't remember the name of the project though...


Terraserver.com


Google have been doing lots of fun topical things with Street View lately.

Here's Japanese Cherry Blossom viewing, Street View style: http://www.google.com/landing/japanview/


> Can any one read this blackboard?

The first two sentences are too blurry for me. I think the third (left-most) sentence is:

○ 授業と休み時間の区別をしよう

"Let's distinguish between class time and break time."




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