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What happens when you bring locations that exist within movie realities into, well, real life? Google Street Scene, which squeezes iconic movie scenes into Google Maps’ Street View feature, that’s what. It’s the ingenious brainchild of Tre Baker, who has recreated these movie scenes in Google Street View style — he even blurs out the [...]
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There’s Google Street View. And then there’s Google Street View paintings. Through the use of the Google API, Raul Moyado Sandoval expands the limits of traditional painting to create paintings that can be expanded in all directions. Geek art, we call that.
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if Instagram had a love child with Google Street View? As ridiculous as that sounds, the guys from Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University, have recently completed a project called The Beat. It’s a website where you can see Instagram photos and what’s around them. It’s actually a pretty clever idea. They use Instagram photos users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google Street View location to help explore topics in a new way.
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It’s about time we were able to explore the depths of the ocean from our computer screens. Now, thanks to Google Street View, you can go on a reef-diving adventure without the hassle of scuba-diving lessons. You can virtually explore 360-degree views of coral reefs in six oceans, which were shot using a submersible SVII [...]
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The Ascii Street View, which basically converts Google Street View panoramic images to Ascii code, is coded by self-confessed ‘retro textmode geek’ and programmer Peter Nitsch. Tried and tested: looking at the world in Ascii mode makes us feel like we are computers trying to make sense of this human world.
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Antarctica recently became a lot more accessible to us all right on Google Street View. These precious panoramic sights are going up on Google’s World Wonders Project site, where you will also find some other amazing locations in the world. Well, you can’t quite do a walkthrough in the ‘hood like you can with the usual Street View, but you can get stunning 360° views of historic Antarctic sights such as the South Pole Telescope, Shackleton’s hut (yes, still standing its ground and intact after more than a century!), Scott’s hut, Cape Royds Adélie Penguin Rookery and the Ceremonial South Pole. We were watching out for penguins to see if they got their faces blurred. No such luck. Well, maybe next time.
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The video for A Ghost Train’s track Chemin Vert was constructed out of panoramic images, painstakingly pulled and manipulated from Google Street View. Described as ‘a trip on the road at supersonic speed spanning across five continents and four seasons’, the result is as riveting as it is inspiring. Fantastic.
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These days, what with reality becoming increasingly digitized, it’s almost like you don’t have to travel to a place to experience it. Illustrator Lehel Kovacs riffs on this fact with her series of sketches, done from Google street views, of various cities around the world.
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