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alpine01today at 10:40 AM1 replyview on HN

3D reconstruction of old spaces which no longer exist seems like a clear use case to me. There's loads of old videos of driving down a street in the 80s, or neighborhoods in cities which got replaced.

I can imagine future iterations of this which bring together other stills of the same space at that time to augment the dataset. Then perhaps another pass to fill in gaps with likely missing content based on probability or data from say the same street 10 years later.

It won't be 100% real, but I think it'd be very cool to be able to have a google-street view style experience of areas before google street view existed.


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phrotomatoday at 11:27 AM

> it'd be very cool to be able to have a google-street view style experience of areas before google street view existed.

Now do Kowloon Walled City.