A room with any view
I'm sure the cool-factor of this would wear a little thin over time, but it's still cool. The aquarium view looks pretty impressive.
Some other thoughts on this:
- All you'd need was a web-cam uplink and this could serve as a pseudo x-ray view getting you to the view you want. i.e even if your real window faced the wall of another building across an alley, if there were a camera on the other side of that building that shot live footage of the scenic bay it faced, you could just pipe that in. Even if there were 27 buildings between you and the scenic overlook, all you need is that one camera on the one building that does have the view.
- Along those lines, I'm sure it won't be long before you could pipe in live feeds from San Fran, the aquarium, the Taj Mahal. It would take more than one camera to generate this effect (or a fish-eye maybe?), but these several video streams would just need to be stitched together Photosynth-style. The interactivity would be a great replica for the real thing.
Now we can all have photo-realistic rooms with views. Any view.
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