Wii U Tokyo panarama: Live-rendered, pre-rendered, or magic camera?

[KHRZ]

Is a lot of discussion on this... one guy that did 3D modeling in maya said it's just no way even real polygonal (the irony). While I agree it looks pretty real, I'm not to sure how they got a camera in all directions flying through the streets; unless they patched it together from multiple cameras, and it just doesn't look smooth if you inspect it closely. So I was thinking maybe it's just pre rendered in a spherical video format, however that seems kinda hard to pull of, switching the feed area... what do you think (or know, preferably)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S05fWaaATU8&feature=g-all-u&context=G25dd1bcFAAAAAAAADAA

[NaturalViolence]

How the hell are you supposed to tell from from a video of someone filming the display? It's impossible to make a good comparison from that video quality. From what I can see the building in the background definitely does not look real (it looks like the side is a flat textured surface). Like most tech demos the scene is optimized to maintain a high level of detail in the nearby objects like the cars and draw your attention away from the distant stuff.

This doesn't seem that difficult to implement. The controller has a gyroscope, all you need to do is use the gyroscope position to set the camera angle. And this visual quality is certainly nothing super impressive given that its a tech demo, hell did you see the zelda tech demo!?!? If nintendo can produce a good zelda game with that image quality they can have all of my money.

Keep in mind also that the wii U might support tessellation and displacement mapping for all we know.