What the Immersive Media Photo-Car Looks Like!
You’ve all heard about what Google is doing with street-level views, right?
What you probably all DIDN’T know, however, is that the company actually shooting the majority of the photos for Google’s datasets, is named Immersive Media.
With that, take a look at what everyone’s wondering – Here’s the Immersive Media Street Level View-Mobile, in all of its glory…
Behold!
The camera mounted on top is Immersive’s own, patented 11-lens camera, close-up below. Media, contact me for high-resolution, if you need them.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:56 am
Google Maps zoom: here’s the device and vehicle behind it
A new street-level zoom feature on Google Maps debuted recently, to much freakout and fanfare (previous BB posts: 1, 2). The company performing the drive-by surveillance and image capture services for Google is Immersive Media, and here’s a blog post …
May 31st, 2007 at 12:29 pm
6th street on Google Street View
New feature from Google maps, street view unveiled yesterday. Here is a direct link to 6th street including the Seneca, Mythic Pizza and Club Six a little further down
update..apparently this is the car that takes the video
May 31st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
This is crazy. I saw one of these cars drive by me just a few minutes ago when I was getting lunch (Alexandria, VA). I got back into the office, pulled up BoingBoing and saw the same car (well, a similar one) staring at me from the page. I wonder if I’ll be in one of the pictures.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I do not love Big Brother.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Actual images of this vehicle, and it looks nothing like what they say it does
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May 31st, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Behind the street-level views at Google
I’ve avoided linking to Google’s new street-level zoom map feature because basically it was everywhere but this is an interesting blog however on the company behind the pictures. Link to blog…
May 31st, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Alex H:
Google has their own vans doing it, too. The pictures from San Francisco are the Google vans, the east coast stuff is Immersive.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Wann wohl Google Maps´ Nahaufnahme-Feature den ersten Mord beobachtet?
Ich hatte das Google Maps Street View-Feature ja zunchst nicht ganz fr voll genommen Das BoingBoing-Blog zeigt nun aber, wie es gemacht wird:
Neben der Firma Immersive Media fhrt in den USA tats…
June 1st, 2007 at 12:44 am
The Beetle is in Las Vegas. A van was in NY.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:03 am
the pics from alex shows no beatles, this are estate cars like van or suv
the street view pics are very good, nice feature for maps
June 1st, 2007 at 7:54 am
Google Street View
Vor ein paar Tagen hat Google sein neustes Feature für die Google Maps gelauncht, “Google Street View”. Dort kann man sich bis jetzt direkt eine 360° Ansicht der Strassen von New York, San Franciso, Miami, Denver und Las Vegas anschauen. Die Technik is…
June 1st, 2007 at 8:12 am
Experience Site-Specific Dance Performances with Immersive Media
I was browsing the Dancing in the Streets website to learn about their upcoming site-specific performances in NYC after covering the new Google street-level mapping service on Wednesday. And I was wondering what it would be like to experience a…
June 1st, 2007 at 9:33 am
If there’s hope it lies in the Proles
June 1st, 2007 at 9:35 am
Brian is exactly right… the van images are from google themselves. The above shot is the actual Immersive Media vehicle. http://pixelspotlight.com/
June 1st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
What company manufactures the digital camera used by Google in San Francisco and what is its resolution compared to Immersive Media’s camera used in New York?
Thanks.
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Google Maps Street View.
Google Maps has added a really cool new feature called Street Views. Now you can virtually drive down…
June 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Talk about violation of privacy.
June 4th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Google Street View Gallery
Here are some oddities found on Google Maps new Street View feature, via StreetViewr.com (most [...]
June 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Saw this Beetle in San Antonio on Friday. I was the first to talk to him just 2 days after launch.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Presentacion del auto y la camara de Google Street View
Este es el auto y la camara con la que google realiazo Street View.
June 4th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Google Maps Streets s spy car(下次在做壞事看到這個一定要先跑)
真是太恐怖了，Google Maps Street的滲透程度已經到了一種讓人(下面這位先生)害怕的境界了(from Mashable)
只不過是享受個美好的午後(?)時光，小歇在路旁的長椅上，挖個鼻孔結果弄倒世人皆…
June 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong… but during my photophography school days, we discussed the legality of photographs taken without someones permission. Specifically, having your property photographed without your permission.
My professor, 40+ years as a professional photographer, informed us you could not take a photo of someone’s house without their permission. Isn’t this exactly what Google is doing? Especially now when they capture images of people in the windows?
I think it’s very cool, but also question it’s legal issues, especially the privacy issue.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
That’s a pretty slick camera. I love that picture of the guy in front of the Adult shop… Forever burned into the internet. I bet that will make for some interesting explanations.
June 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
FXEditor, I won’t say your photo professor is wrong, but you probably didn’t ask the right question…
There are a lot of conditions: purpose of the image (commerical, personal use, etc), primary subject v background, etc…
-Ray
June 13th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Google Streetview New Beetle
Als Beetle Fahrer begeistern mich solche Meldungen ganz besonders. Im GoogleWatchBlog ist das Bild eines New Beetle mit 360°-Kamera abgelichtet, das im Auftrag von Google interaktive Panaoramabilder von Strassen amerikanischer Grostdte sch…
July 26th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Googles Photoapparat
Googles Street-View-Erweiterung von Google Maps, die u.a. Straßenansichten von Häusern und Personen zeigt, ist ein sehr umstrittener Dienst in den USA. Bei …
September 12th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Immersive Media and Google are doing different things…Google is just taking picutres and posting them on the interent, where as Immersive Media is taking the time to “scuff” out the faces of people, names of buildings, license plate numbers, and anything else that could violate the privacy act. These images are on the internet to help you locate an address and get a better look at where you need to go…they are not there to point out where people are located and what they are doing.