Google announced the arrival of an immersive route view in March last year. A complete three-dimensional graphics experience that perfectly illustrates cities like New York, London or Paris. This update came to improve traffic in the centers of these cities and thus exponentially improve navigation to get to a destination.
Now Google has shown how it has allowed such an experience to reach a mobile phone with this 3D that perfectly visualizes any street, avenue, square or neighborhood of a large city. Daniel Philip, Google engineerin a video with CNET gives some details about the cameras, plans and even backpacks used to create this 3D map in combination with data provided by aerial cameras.
The common Google Maps map known to all was created thanks to the photographs captured by these cars with special cameras which were seen driving on the roads in Europe. During all these years, Google has managed to install lighter cameras, even in backpacks, so that they can take photos even in more complicated access areas.
Like it was a video game
And shots are very important to capture the 3D image data used. for reconstructing the immersive view model. Unlike the cameras installed on Google cars to create Street View, there are very special cameras that have been placed right under a plane with four lenses placed in front of each.
In this way they are able to create an effect parallax snapshot, which AI and computer vision are responsible for collecting to transform it directly into 3D terra in and building models
The big difference with the immersive 3D route view is that it does not display static images. In fact, Google took care of reconstruct animations of the type of traffic you can expect at intersections and what the location would look like at certain times of the day.
The same thing happens with the visual representation of the flight of seagulls when you are on the coast or the passage of pedestrians crossing the streets, as if it were happening in real time. Weather data also overlaps, so The environment can be perfectly displayed depending on the weather and time of the day.
You can now better understand the amazing work behind the 3D rendering of a city and the current limitation so that itineraries with immersive views are only available in these cities: Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Paris, Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, Tokyo and Venice.
At the moment, we do not know when The immersive view of the routes will be available in Spanish cities like Madrid or Barcelona, but, according to the video made by CNET with Google, that a 3D city can be accessed from a cell phone, almost as if it were a video game, is pure magic and shows the degree of intent and professionalism of the tech giant to improve your maps application.
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