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A comment on The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google Street View. Parent comment

Re:The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google S... by dtf on Thursday June 04, 2009 @03:15PM (#641994)
Makes you wonder, but then again this sounds like just the kind of thing that some 10 year old user interface patent will suddenly turn up on... snapped up by an IP troll during the fire-sale of some long-dead CAD company.
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Re:The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google S... by LogicHoleFlaw on Thursday June 04, 2009 @04:18PM (#642133)
3D games have been doing this sort of UI for ages. Still, the 3D reconstruction work being applied to real-life images is quite impressive.
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