They use motion capture data to help their animated humans move realistically, and were able to extrapolate cars' motion throughout an entire stretch of road from just a few spotty camera angles. From their video of an augmented virtual Earth, you can see if the pickup soccer game in the park is short a player, how traffic is on the highway, and how fast the wind is blowing the clouds across the sky.
Augmented reality in Google Earth (video)
Posted on Sunday, October 04 2009 @ 0:25 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a technology to add real-time, real-world information onto a Google Earth layer to display dynamic information like traffic, people and clouds. More info at Popular Science.
