‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm

Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by LordOfWolves on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:44PM (#28901774)

This is quite impressive for ‘94, thank you for sharing.

I found it funny - in a “how ridiculous/silly” kind of way - that at 4:40 we get to look inside a building by entering through its windows, but here we are in the 21st century with that exact capability. Individuals providing photos and/or footage of the interior of their commercial space does not seem so silly these days.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by jcun4128 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:14PM (#28901900)

I was thinking it's funny the literal globe interface you use and then this knob you turn that's held by this arm.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by cma on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:02AM (#28902381)

> knob you turn

That's a 6-dof spacemouse, still widely used today in CAD and 3d modeling.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by matheusmoreira on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:59AM (#28903476)

https://youtu.be/AX7yS4q6kZY

What an interesting input device.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by iamacyborg on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:37AM (#28903369)

It always makes me laugh that the ship controls in The Expanse are literally one of these things.

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Re:‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Googl... by jcun4128 on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:12AM (#28902417)

oh wow, I had to watch a video to see how that works, I have seen them before but thought it was just rotating on a plane.

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