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This is quite impressive for ‘94, thank you for sharing.

I found it funny - in a “how ridiculous/silly” kind of way - that at 4:40 we get to look inside a building by entering through its windows, but here we are in the 21st century with that exact capability. Individuals providing photos and/or footage of the interior of their commercial space does not seem so silly these days.



I was thinking it's funny the literal globe interface you use and then this knob you turn that's held by this arm.


> knob you turn

That's a 6-dof spacemouse, still widely used today in CAD and 3d modeling.


https://youtu.be/AX7yS4q6kZY

What an interesting input device.


It always makes me laugh that the ship controls in The Expanse are literally one of these things.


oh wow, I had to watch a video to see how that works, I have seen them before but thought it was just rotating on a plane.




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