Depth Maps of a city for Tele-Travel, extracted via Google Street view (click to read)

In Memories with Maya, Krish and Dan talk about mapping entire city blocks via real-time depth scanners atop high buildings.

These realtime depth maps can be used to construct a moving 3D “mesh” of an entire city, including people and vechicles…

The project done by Patricio Gonzalez, extracting a pointcloud via Google’s Streetview, shows a great first step towards such an eventuality –  TELE-TRAVEL.

Read the GizModo article. and  Patricio’s comments on how he discovered this hidden data in Google Streetview are on his vimeo page, below his video.