It would be remiss not to also mention The Cube Rule

https://cuberule.com/

By mass, sure - but have you considered delectability?

Even though it's not delectable by current methods, we can observe dark breakfasts effects on the movement of dietary bodies.

Apologies as this is fairly tangential:

There's a parallax effect in Street View on Apple Maps that separates out the layers of every image. Things like lampposts or telephone poles all rotate slightly differently to whatever is behind them.

And it's such a subtle effect that I still break my brain trying to determine whether or not I've made it up.

Imagine expending that much development time and effort for something you're not even sure is there. And somehow I still find it enviably cool.

Sounds awesome, is there a video of it I could watch somewhere?

Edit: for those who didn't know, like me, apple's maps are available at https://maps.apple.com. You can see this yourself. The effect is unvelievably smooth compared to what Google maps have

Oh cool, I didn't know they added their Street View equivalent to the web version. The animated transitions are much better than Google's.

It does look smooth but for me the killer feature on google maps is still the ability to go back in time.

They seem to be significantly slower though

It's very cool but I don't understand why they've decided to basically not do it in the US and UK.

Meanwhile they have nearly full coverage of the rest of western Europe, plus a huge amount of Canada and Mexico.

https://i.imgur.com/ZPTozti.png

This was launched in 2019. A few years ago I remember speculating that they were holding it back with the cool 3D effects to do a big push alongside Vision Pro, but that's come and gone with no significant change to Look Around.

California isn't doing bad, but outside of that they're averaging about 0.5 locations per state.

They haven't been to Nashville but they sent someone to drive to Rainbow Lake, Alberta? What gives?

Does it appear only if you visit the website on mobile? I don't see any street view option when I visit that site on a PC.

You have to zoom in the map and click on the binoculars in the bottom left corner!

I believe so, I can't test now but I don't see it on desktop either.

Forgive me for copy-pasting.

You have to zoom in the map and click on the binoculars in the bottom left corner!

Oh that’s right, I always forget they have it on the web.

Oh wow I hadn’t noticed that. It’s especially noticeable when “walking” down the street between points.

I’m so glad to finally have that feature in my area. It was the one thing I missed from Google Maps which I otherwise avoid.

I just wish Apple would add more streets. London is the closest place with Apple “street view” to me and there are literally a couple of cities (!!!) between me and London. So I don’t hold any hope that Apple will ever get round to coming to my small village if there are entire cities they’ve left out.

I love this and share the experience! It is a very cool effect, specially when moving through the street.

I think it's the same tech they use to make the "3d" background photos on the iPhone wallpaper, which is probably also the same tech used for inferring depth when converting a normal photo to a spatial photo for viewing on an AVP.

Look around uses a real 3D capture with lidar. If you move around in Mapillary it does do something similar to that using SfM.

Drag two fingers on the map and you'll bring the camera down to see the 3D effect more clearly.

For my life, I don't understand the gestures for the 3D map. It would seem that I can ONLY manipulate that view by accident.

This is really cool. I loved the technical breakdown and side by side comparisons. Surprised to hear that Microsoft and MacOS default fonts didn't score so well!

Just earlier I received a spew of LLM slop from my manager as "requirements". He clearly hadn't even spent two minutes reviewing whether any of it made sense, was achievable or even desirable. I ignored it. We're all fed up with this productivity theatre.

"productivity theatre" is a brilliant phrase. Thank you!

The streamer PayMoneyWubby did a hilarious deep dive into the world of artisanal pencil sharpening last year. He couldn't quite tell whether it was real or a genius comedy bit.

For the curious, Clickspring has recreated something a lot like this and uses it on his Antikythera Mechanism videos on YT.

Thankyou. I was going to point this out. Chris (ClickSpring) is the first to say that his methods are not proven, they're just highly believable given the technology of the time. I did some archaeology at uni and I know we're not meant to say this, but sometimes things are just so obvious even when there is no physical evidence of it.

Archaeological proofs have the unfortunate property of having each deductive step being fairly obvious and limited, but proving those steps can be literally impossible.

Just checking (genuine question) there wouldn't be a sneaky way to weaponize a million satellites in orbit around the Earth, would there? I can't imagine it wouldn't have ever been looked into.

The Toss emojis at the end of the article are surprisingly artful!

Shame, I was hoping they'd introduced a "hand tossing" emoji.

There are many versions, it's a popular theme. I saw 4 or 5 together in the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo recently.