Thread

1. sbarre · 1790273183 · focus · HN ↗

   I've done this in Google Earth VR, and it's very fun. You can get down to basically street view, but everything is very blocky and blurry..

   Or you can stay at "Godzilla scale" and walk around the city with buildings the (relative) size of appliances or furniture.. NYC is kind of fun that way.

   If you are somewhere that you've been in real life, it's uncanny how familiar it still seems even at low res..

   For somewhere you haven't been, or are planning on going, it can give you a sense of scale/scope/direction that is quite nice.

   1. jerf · 1790274044 · focus · HN ↗

      There's also a number of videos on YouTube with varying amounts of 3D or 180/360 of people just walking through all kinds of various tourist places without comment. From inside a VR headset, is it as good as visiting yourself? Of course not. But it's not the worst way to spend some time. And in my opinion it captures at least a little of the je ne sais quoi of visiting a place that watching a video on a screen does not. Not necessarily a lot. But non-zero.

      1. kridsdale1 · 1790275929 · focus · HN ↗

         VR gives you SCALE in a way you simply can’t perceive on a flat screen. Going down in to the Hoover Dam in Earth VR is something else.

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.