Google Launches New 'Body Browser'

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Watch out, TSA: Google's getting into the game of exploring the human body. Hang on, though -- there's no groping going on here. Google's approach is a new educational tool called Google Body Browser. Launched on the Google Labs website today, Google Body Browser uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail.
 
bulldog08 said:
wtf i can't see her boobs...
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Although I'm not into 3d nudity as much as some people, for an educational tool it should have a naked (safesearch=off) option. We don't come clothed in the real world. I can see this being very useful for sex-ed classes ... if they still existed.
 
Spidey329 said:
Although I'm not into 3d nudity as much as some people, for an educational tool it should have a naked (safesearch=off) option. We don't come clothed in the real world. I can see this being very useful for sex-ed classes ... if they still existed.
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With as many young girls getting knocked up as there are, and the spread of STD's. I don't think they exist anymore.
 
quite neat, didn't read the article first and just gave it a go, lucky i had firefox beta running. Can't seem to get her naked tho!
 
Wow. What a poor wiring job :)

About 1/4 the way in is about as near to Ewww as I wanna get.
 
I wish this were here last year; it would have made anatomy easier to study for. However, I still have a few nitpicks. It isn't as detailed as I would like, and it doesn't let you move the view, just pan it except for at the head and feet. But it's still good as a review tool.

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You guys are a dirty, dirty bunch. Surely Google has enough porn already...
 
This would have been so helpful in my human physiology classes. All those bones and muscles... especially on the face omfg, so many. I don't remember a single one now.
 
Doesn't work for IE 9... lame

I don't want to mess up my FF or Chrome install :mad:
 
Every first year medical student should check this out. Textbooks like Netters are just inadequate for anatomy
 
I wish I could've shown this to my human anatomy teacher awhile ago, would've been a lot nicer than the xx-year old text books and posters.
 
Proxy said:
With as many young girls getting knocked up as there are, and the spread of STD's. I don't think they exist anymore.
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What? :confused:

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Every first year medical student should check this out. Textbooks like Netters are just inadequate for anatomy
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It doesn't actually have enough detail. I can't seem to find the long thoracic nerve, it doesn't show any of the attachments of the muscles, it doesn't seem to distinguish between the uterus, fallopian tubes, fimbriae, ovaries, and suspensory ligament, and I wish they let you peel back muscles, since it's hard to see deeper muscle layers.
 
Proxy said:
With as many young girls getting knocked up as there are, and the spread of STD's. I don't think they exist anymore.
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As far as Sex Ed goes. These things need to be taught by "Parents" but I don't think THOSE exist anymore.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
It doesn't actually have enough detail. I can't seem to find the long thoracic nerve, it doesn't show any of the attachments of the muscles, it doesn't seem to distinguish between the uterus, fallopian tubes, fimbriae, ovaries, and suspensory ligament, and I wish they let you peel back muscles, since it's hard to see deeper muscle layers.
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I agree. It needs a bit of work. I was trying to look at the plantar fascia area, with all it's connective bits, but it wasn't that detailed and the zoom/rotation was crap. You can tell it's based off of google earth. You should be able to re-center the rotation point AND rotate around that point. As it is, you can only functionally rotate around the vertical axis.
 
This was interesting about 10 years ago when this system was first developed. Nothing new here.
 
I don't get it. Its for educational purposes, why can't they show everything? Its not like you can't find pron in .0256 seconds on google. Sheesh. When will people grow up?!

I'm sure it will get better and better. Google earth wasn't the greatest when it first came out either. What is even sadder is there should be no reason why something like this doesn't already exist in the medical community. The real trick will be to scan someone and then display it in 3D like that. Get on it Google!!
 
VRMan said:
I don't get it. Its for educational purposes, why can't they show everything? Its not like you can't find pron in .0256 seconds on google. Sheesh. When will people grow up?!

I'm sure it will get better and better. Google earth wasn't the greatest when it first came out either. What is even sadder is there should be no reason why something like this doesn't already exist in the medical community. The real trick will be to scan someone and then display it in 3D like that. Get on it Google!!
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You know their going to expand this technology and make a virtual copy of everyones bodies based on the information collected from hacking wireless modems or peeking in showers/saunas/motels :eek:

Youll be able to find everyone and doctors can just check out your organs to see whats messed up (health insurance will quadouble!) Then everyone will complain and get their genitals and nipples blurred :eek:
 
I'm sure it will get better and better. Google earth wasn't the greatest when it first came out either. What is even sadder is there should be no reason why something like this doesn't already exist in the medical community. The real trick will be to scan someone and then display it in 3D like that. Get on it Google!!
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That can already be done with CT scans, it's nothing special.
 
They should make take it a step further and give the user options to break bones, puncture organs, give it steroids, etc and press a play button and see what happens to the body.
 
VRMan said:
I don't get it. Its for educational purposes, why can't they show everything? Its not like you can't find pron in .0256 seconds on google. Sheesh. When will people grow up?!

I'm sure it will get better and better. Google earth wasn't the greatest when it first came out either. What is even sadder is there should be no reason why something like this doesn't already exist in the medical community. The real trick will be to scan someone and then display it in 3D like that. Get on it Google!!
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When this was originally done for discovery by my friend's company, they did show everything. They designed a system that showed the body, part by part, from skin to cells and you could fluidly transition through the layers, just like in the google application. That is why I don't see what is so new about this, it is just rehashed technology with perhaps even less detail.
 
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