Vu Nguyen’s
playground of ideas

Here is a bit of infor­ma­tion about the project:

Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to vir­tu­ally visit cities by nav­i­gat­ing between immer­sive 360° panora­mas, or bub­bles. The dis­crete moves from bub­ble to bub­ble enabled in these sys­tems do not pro­vide a good visual sense of a larger aggre­gate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panora­mas can pro­vide a visual sum­mary of a city street but lack the full real­ism of immer­sive panoramas.

… As the user slides side­ways, the multi-perspective panorama is con­structed and ren­dered dynam­i­cally to sim­u­late either a per­spec­tive or hyper-perspective view. This pro­vides a strong sense of par­al­lax, which adds to the immer­sion. We call this form of slid­ing side­ways while look­ing at a street façade a street slide…

Thanks, Tom.