Soon, any user of Google’s Street View app will be able to capture their own imagery of a precise location — or an entire street — simply by means of their smartphone camera. In other words, all web users will be on hand to help grow the app’s already immense database.
That has two main advantages for Google: first, users on the ground can capture places previously unmapped in the app, and second, they can keep places already featured up to date.
And there’s no need for any special high-tech kit to take 360-degree videos and photos, a simple smartphone compatible with the ARCore development kit is all that’s needed to get involved (in other words, most recent mobile phones)…
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