Now make it work with Unreal Engine 5.1 and virtualize the planet!

I was thinking the same thing lol. Why not make a driving game based off this or something similar?

Magicians Penn and Teller invented a video game that is "The most boring video game in the world". It's simply driving straight ahead for 24 hours. They did it just as a goof.

Max speed is 100 mph 😪

Make magic flying bus go faster

It reminds me of that feature in Google Earth where you can actually fly a plane

The first thing I did was crash into a car, ha. It’s no fun if I don’t blow up!

I parked on my roof

This was dumb, and I loved it.

I've always thought a game of, say the Gumball Ralley, played using google maps to generate routes and traffic in realtime would fly.

Imagine a run from New York to LA in real time against real traffic reports

And it's raised millions for charity

I want one where I can ride my stationary bike at home and watch the streets of my hometown pass by… without paying a lot for the privilege

We are evolving lol

As is tradition

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This is just guessing but you probably have to pay Google a shit ton of money to use the map data commercially unless you are

A) Google, where the project will be killed 6 months after release

B) Capable of creating your own street view data of the entire globe.

Only Microsoft has come close and did just that with Flight Sim.

I was expecting to be able to drive a route in Street View. That would be cool and very useful.

next big idea?

Did no one else get a prompt to set yahoo as default search engine during install? I said no and the app wouldn't run. What is this, the late 90's still? Bummer, I wanted to try this out

Took all of 5 seconds for me to do a little "off roading"

Who made this? I've been wanting to make a game like this, but essentially just using google maps as a Virtual Tabletop for RPGs. Imagine this but you can just place figurines around on maps (3d view would be better), have a grid, and measuring tool.

I thought the google maps API wasn't allowing people to use maps like this anymore!

This is how you do meta verse, Mark!

this seems like a pretty cool idea!

Midtown Madness.

Which begs the question what happen with self driving tools

I'm gonna drive from New York to London!

Geoguessr uses Street View data, but yes, there's API fees...

Dev name is listed in the site

Their twitter is https://twitter.com/korinVR_en

That new flight simulator world combines the data with AI landscape generation and its absolutely sick… from the sky at least. Get a little closer to the ground and you’ll see an upside down house here and there.

Absolutely mind blowing tech. Can’t wait to see where it goes.

Haha. Also expected more than 100 mph max.

I think a mod for MSFS is easier

Wasn't there a version of SimCity that did this?

Neat, but I was hoping for the 3D buildings or at least some collision detection (pulling road data from OpenStreetMap to be able to tell when you're outside the road?)

I was actually trying to drive safe.

Oh no the virtual Tesla just killed a virtual pedestrian

One time I set up my stationary bike in front of the TV, fired up GTA V. Found a road bike and set the camera to first person and just cruised around town while actually pedaling irl. It was pretty awesome actually, I just couldn't figure out how to comfortably hold the controller

GTA bike let's you do this with a bike trainer. You can still shoot people of you bring a controller as well.

There are bike training apps that does exactly this.

And the bus pulls to one side constantly while you’re driving, so you actually have to pay attention

its kinda garbage to be honnest.

It could be nice aid for over dimensional vehicles or truck drivers, it could lower incidents if drivers could cheaply and quickly scope out potential problems.

It's actually quite accessible and priced by usage

https://developers.google.com/maps

You want VZFIT.

VZFIT does this but it is VR only I believe.

I need this in Zwift, asap.

Driving game, mmorpg, moba... You could do so many things with it!

And a fly hits your windscreen

> from the sky at least.

I don't know much about planes, but aren't they generally supposed to be in the sky?

That's no fun :)

Strap a 360⁰ camera to your helmet and ride your bike through your town, then watch it while you stationary cycle at home. You can do the same thing with your favorite stores, parks, even your friends' and family's homes. You'll never have to leave your home again.

The apps I’ve seen do big cities … I’m thinking little town where Google Maps does a street view …

I haven’t looked into them recently but perhaps I’ll see what new stuff has come along.

I’d have to hire a teenager to wear a GoPro and ride through town … too many hills and it’s 20* out there right now.

You can do this with an app and a cadence sensor (inexpensive). I forgot the app name I will update you if I remember. If you have a vr headset the app works with that too.

Not interested in expensive exercise apps … I just want something motivating to watch while I peddle in place.

Back in my day, all we had were Polaroids and we liked it

VR headsets make me want to puke … disconnect between eyes and ears is too disorienting. Brain is an old model and ineligible for updates.

Coordinating an app and the bike is more functionality than I need. I may experiment with YouTube videos and play speed.

Polaroids …. fancy! Although there was something wonderful about putting the developing sleeve in my bra when taking Polaroids on cold days.

There used to be a driving game based on the Google street view maps, but they got threatened with a lawsuit if I remember correctly.

Fair enough. It’s worth mentioning that the cost of using street view is part of the reason for the price of VzFit.

Sim city 4, with the expansion allowed you to drive cars.

Sim copter too iirc

This could be adapted so I could practice driving in Europe. I'm in the UK where we drive on the left, in Europe they drive mainly on the right. Being able to practice, especially reversed roundabouts would be so helpful. A GTA version would also be awesome.

Lol I was already doing this on Google maps while on the street view, I would always run a quick simulated drive whenever going somewhere I’m not familiar with.

Thank you for this, I just spent way too much time driving around. I'm 55 and my son complimented me on figuring out how to use the controls. 😂

Why hasn't some racing game capitalized on this yet? You could build your own racetrack anywhere.

this is awesome, especially from the driving experience standpoint: steering self-centering steering, vehicle dynamics... even drifting works.

Drove straight to my house, parked in the drive. Love it!

If you want a flying version, there's MS Flight Simulator

Install? It's a web app

same

my thoughts exactly

That being said... this is kind of lame. You can drive anywhere, through trees, on top of buildings, over cliffs, across water... it's just a way to fly over a map using a car or bus as a floating not-quite-center point. Good concept, poor execution.

I used to grind that out in the school library

SimCity 2000 had an expansion called Streets of SimCity. SimCopter was before it, which I had. It was so fun!

The graphics were quite bad I thought, even in 1996. But I still had a blast.

Yeah. How could they miss the in car view?

If you go off the road you have to start over again.

When you reach the end you get a point. One point.

On Chrome it just froze. On firefox it prompted me to install some extension

Wait I see, there's a sneaky add above the app that says enter start location...jerks

>Only Microsoft has come close and did just that with Flight Sim.

They use Bing data though, not Google

Yes, they are B).

This is weirdly addictive.