This experiment is using an undocumented part of Street View, the depth data. With that a depth map and a normal map are generated, which can be used in the shaders and to plot geometry and sprites in (almost) the correct position in 3d space.
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Published by Bramus!
Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)
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