@clive The historical predecessor to street view can be traced to the the Aspen project from the MIT Media Lab in 1978. In that system you could travel down the roads that had been filmed using a 4 movie camera rig, transferred to LaserDisc. Multiple players were controlled by a minicomputer. In that system you could switch from views of the fall to views of winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Movie_Map
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It's so odd and unsettling to be in Google street mode on a map, clicking my way along down a street ...