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Ahhhh HAHAHAHA.... 

Long live the Shore.

Posted by: rat

Been along time since I dropped by here.  bought a new MTB so I figured I better get back on the ride more bitch less thread.  

been snowbiking, trials biking , Moto riding  but I guess its time to start turning cranks again

What bike did you get?

Posted by: ReductiMat

That is fucking awesome.

Right click inside any of the trails for  "LittlePlanet View" you can create the above and more.

Posted by: Kieran

Yeah its pretty neat. You missed out the Cherry Bomb on Wild Cherry tho :) That's the main original line.

Cherry Bomb is included. Part of an Easter Egg hunt inside the tour.

Posted by: DanL

Will you be using machine learning to process the interpolation between each 360 photo ?

For now machine learning is used to remove the tripod out of each stitched 360 photo. It might very hard to use deep learning to place down the markers and advance between each 360 photo. It is possible but the learning data set would need to be massive and even then each trail is so different with unique features unlike a road with marked lines and tangible boarders with traffic signals.

Posted by: Ddean

Thank you!

That's neat - you sure feel the grade much moreso than in video or normal photos. It looks like you walked the trails and took photos every 25 feet or so. That's a lot of work! Would it be easier to ride the trails with a 360deg camera?

For the high quality images as well machine learning tools to take away the tripod we felt it was best to walk each trail for the VR mapping. I feel the extra time involved is worth it in serving up 12K images at nearly 100MP.

Our 360 rig is custom with nearly a dozen cameras mounted in a stereoscopic layout so the risk of  injury due to rig weight and damage to very expensive equipment was to high a risk.

The first few trails are around 20 feet for every sequence but if you look at Pangor or Boogieman we did try to get around 10 feet or so per sequence especially for the interesting features.

Just finishing up post processing for all Cypress, Fromme and Seymour trails and then will be heading out to the woodlot.

Soft website launch and would love to see how the Babylon JS back end handles everything.

I hope you enjoy the site.

- 12K 360 Images.

- Full VR Ready Web based platform "No app required"

- Smartphone ready Android / iOS with Gyro enabled Mixed Reality MR and VR.

- Support for VR headsets including Oculus, HTC and Microsoft MR.

https://www.mtbvr.ca

Like Mr Simmons has said above much speculation on many different fronts makes this a very complicated subject.

As a builder of the Shore my worst fears are already front and center and I see E-bikes accelerating what is going on the shore. We now have a potential

user group that without much effort getting into areas that were previously earned through hard work and many hard learned experiences.

Will this new user group demand a easy access up and down? who can say... But we are losing iconic features that define the shore each and every year.

Will motorized e-bikes be the tipping point on previously safe trail features that were fine to ride with human powered bikes?

This is not speculation on my part. We are actually being mandated by land mangers in removing iconic features that have always been the part of the shore.

little by little we lose what comes to easy.

Posted by: Ddean

Isnt NSMBA the land manager on Fromme and Seymour marked trails?

Land Managers they are not.

This was my quote from 2013 here on NSMB

"If you got in on the ground floor mining for Bitcoins when they first started with a standard gaming rig and 4 good ATI cards you would be a multimillionaire today with only the cost of the above rig and the Hydro to run it.

Today its almost impossible to mine with standard hardware as the hash rate has gotten so hard that only very specific hardware using ASIC chips will work. And they cost thousands of bucks per card and the return rate is almost NIL at this point.

"the guys making these cards are making a killing as a sucker is born every minute"

You want my take on this and how to possibly make some cash in a strange way.

Prediction time.

Forget bitcoins. In 1-2 years time the hash rate will be impossible due to the flood of all the ASIC mining rigs out. Think a very sharp bell curve and bitcoins are just nearing the top.

That is when people are going to start mining for Litecoins "if bitcoins is gold, then litecoins is the silver of this market".

You can get great returns using standard Nvidia, ATI gaming cards worth a few hundred and even transfer them to bitcoins if you wish. The cost of litecoins right now is very low right now but the minute the above happens with bitcoins and no one can mine them everyone is going to jump onto litecoins.

Then the price will jump. If you mined for them now you will be almost on the ground floor for that jump.

Profit? perhaps…

Very little risk mining litecoins at this point. Just your PC and the cost of Hydro."

20/20 eh?