This is the accompanying video to our SIGGRAPH 2010 paper Enjoy
The video quality here on Youtube is unfortunately not so great why visit httpjohanneskopfdepublicationsstreet_slide for the high quality version
Abstract
Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable
users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive
360panoramas 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 Multiperspective
strip panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but
lack the full realism of immersive panoramas
We present Street Slide which combines the best aspects of the
immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multiperspective
strip panoramas We demonstrate a seamless transition
between bubbles and multiperspective panoramas We also
present a dynamic construction of the panoramas which overcomes
many of the limitations of previous systems As the user slides sideways
the multiperspective panorama is constructed and rendered
dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyperperspective
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 facade a street slide Finally we integrate annotations and a
minimap within the user interface to provide geographic information
as well additional affordances for navigation We demonstrate
our Street Slide system on a series of intersecting streets in an urban
setting We report the results of a user study which shows that
visual searching is greatly enhanced with the Street Slide interface
over existing systems from Google and Bing
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