Author here. It's amusing to see this resurfacing today since it was released 7 years ago.<p>I suppose it's due to the recent launch of our latest WebGL experience: <a href="https://equinox.space" rel="nofollow">https://equinox.space</a><p>It's an immersive space survival experience with interactive storytelling. Hope you like it!<p>EDIT:
HN thread regarding Equinox: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113013">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113013</a>
No humans walking around makes me sad :( A really cool project, albeit worrying that 50% of the real estate of Infinitown is roads only a couple of cars drive on ;) When zoomed in all the way I wish there was some LOD meshing to provide longer view distance, would make it feel much more immersive in that sense.
there was a project[0] that did a similar display over real openstreetmap data, sadly the demo[1] seems to be offline now, but there's a video of it[2].<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/wrld3d/wrld.js">https://github.com/wrld3d/wrld.js</a><p>[1] <a href="https://maps.wrld3d.com/" rel="nofollow">https://maps.wrld3d.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOJivvtStc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOJivvtStc</a>
I remember seeing this years ago. While trying to recreate this I learned so much and had lots of fun. I still love scrolling through the city to this day!
2017? Past discussions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795204">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795204</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24891059">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24891059</a>