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Exercise & memory via stationary cycling


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I haven't spent too much time playing with Google Street View, but it would be interesting if, after a decade or more collecting info, there was a date selection field so you could see the view grabbed in 2010, 2014, 2018, and beyond as the data accumulates. Sure, it is too late for these older folks to see their "true" childhood home or wedding spot as it would exist in their memories, BUT folks from say 1990 on would be able to have that be a neat option. And, in 50 years, while it will have evolved and morphed (3D, VR, brain shunt, etc), it will still be a neat idea. Hopefully, though, Alzheimers or other types of dementia will be solved by then.

The device combines a stationary bicycle, a dome-shaped projector and Google Street View technology. Users sit on the bike and are able to pedal through video of meaningful destinations — a childhood home, a vacation destination, the spot they were married — projected onto the screen in front of them.

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10 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

I haven't spent too much time playing with Google Street View, but it would be interesting if, after a decade or more collecting info, there was a date selection field so you could see the view grabbed in 2010, 2014, 2018, and beyond as the data accumulates. Sure, it is too late for these older folks to see their "true" childhood home or wedding spot as it would exist in their memories, BUT folks from say 1990 on would be able to have that be a neat option. And, in 50 years, while it will have evolved and morphed (3D, VR, brain shunt, etc), it will still be a neat idea. Hopefully, though, Alzheimers or other types of dementia will be solved by then.

The device combines a stationary bicycle, a dome-shaped projector and Google Street View technology. Users sit on the bike and are able to pedal through video of meaningful destinations — a childhood home, a vacation destination, the spot they were married — projected onto the screen in front of them.

Tom

Hard to believe that Google would provide archived image layers for free.  

In my organization (govn't) we do store GIS archived layers of images, drawings within our municipal boundaries.  All of these different older versions require computer memory space to store. Forget about cloud that's just other computer services outside of the organization. In a nutshell it's outsourced computer servers and outsourced techies managing your digital content assets on their servers somewhere in the world.

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