Is it possible to play in 360 degrees with myself walking around so I mean something like the street view feature of google maps?

Mo
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Z.b in minecraft or any other 3d game is it possible to make a video like google maps for example?

Co

How do you mean? Of course you can turn 360 degrees and film that. Or what was the question?

Mo

You just have to read the question. I mean, record a game, and make it like walking in the google maps streetview mode.

Co

How should that be possible?

Mo

No idea, that's why I ask yes

ra

You can take 360 ° videos, on Youtube you can find countless, but you can look around there but only with a smartphone on the latest Youtube app or a VR Glass.

In this 360 ° sample video, such a camera was mounted on the helmet. At the end of the video you can see the camera on the helmet, which are now small and compact and so do not need a car as Google Street View.

This was not your question, but these videos offer a way to develop video games by playing the videos faster or slower depending on how fast you move, as you move backwards, the video plays backwards, etc. Then gives you the impression of being able to move in the game, but not in the room but only on this one track, which was recorded by the camera. The type of games where such things can be meaningfully used is very limited, perhaps for a trainee simulator or e.g. For running on treadmill for stretching in VR.

But now you're talking about games where you can move normally, so that would mean that 360 ° videos are inappropriate and you have to take individual 360 ° images. As on Google Street View, did you mention. But where is the hack? The slower you want to move in the game, the smaller must be the spacing of these images, otherwise you have no fluid game but choppy pictures and jumps perspective.

In order to create a fluid image on this method, a picture has to be taken at least every 5cm. For a square meter that makes 200 images for length and 200 images for the width, so already a network of 40'000 360 ° images! So in order to get a playing area the size of a football field would have to be made 7000 * 40'000 pictures, so 280 million pictures!

In order for the game to be graphic, not only a lot of pictures have to be made, but also a good resolution. But so far everything is possible. Now it goes on, but when you move into the game afterwards, you have to load new pictures all the time. These must not only be loaded but also aligned directly in the right direction. In order for something like this to work properly, these images would constantly have to be loaded into RAM in an abnormally large number. In addition, damn strong processors would have to be at work. The game would not be feasible for the computers of normal mortals today. But determined in the future. It would be feasible today, but why should you develop something, which is not bought in the end.