Last time I was in LA, I was much younger and better looking, and I could play guitar pretty good too. Or so they tell me.

You haven’t heard of the group I’m with. Not yet.

As for the difference in visual quality in the demos — one uses expensive volumetric rendering and one uses cheap polygons. I’d argue that any Google Body app will use polygons due to bandwidth and machine limits, not to mention handling those individual body variations. The trick is making it look good.

The rendering in this video is fairly low-brow if you ask me. The pictures that I’ve seen of the renders from Stanford are far more detailed — and the interface is patently Google Earth-like.

If Leonardo were alive today, he’d probably be rather proud of all he sees.

Why not try reading the non-fictional article I wrote on “Google Earth for the Human Body” (linked on this very page, upper right, no search required) a few months back?

While I enjoyed the writing in the FFF article when I read it, it can hardly claim to have invented the idea of “google body” (though people who think Boing Boing is The Internet will try).

Since you probably won’t bother: it’s from a “future article” from Future Feed Forward.