I'm attempting this (360 video street-view) for Buenos Aires.
It is certainly feasible but there are many factors involved, starting from the right lens to dealing with the bureaucracy when trying to acquire permits.
Storage is an issue. A couple of city blocks means a few GB without compression. Since I'm shooting for high quality, I need a better solution than a measly notebook.
Of course, I'm just a mere mortal without an appropriate income for this stuff. Google could do this in their sleep.
Wow, this is really awesome. Google should contact this person and use it as a long-form commercial for Street View. I think it sells it better than anything else I've ever seen. Incidentally, it fits almost perfectly to fill an entire commercial break.
This is a brilliant piece of beautiful and clever animation, there's no doubt about that.
But is it really stop motion street-view? I didn't think street-view's increments were that small. Not that it should take anything away from the final product if it wasn't, I'm just wondering.
Street view is built via a camera mounted on a truck driving on the street. I see no reason that the captured frames wouldn't include normal traffic flows.
Since its stop motion, you wouldn't see the morphing transition, they would wait for that to finish and then take the picture.
Not sure if that is what they actually did, but playing around with it a bit on my own it looks like you could get some decently fluid looking motion by taking screenshots of each "frame" that street view provides.
