Tag: Virtual Travel
Video: ‘Waking Up in the Same Place Every Morning is Boring’
by Michael Yessis | 04.26.10 | 2:23 PM ET
That’s the tagline for a strange and compelling product that has gadget lovers buzzing. Winscape consists of a pair of virtual windows that can display scenes from around the world. The scenes change perspective as the viewer moves about. The Golden Gate Bridge stars in the promo video:
It’s another step forward for virtual travel.
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Yahoo! BuzzParis in 26 Gigapixels
by Eva Holland | 03.18.10 | 12:16 PM ET
Zoom from a cityscape right down to street level in this amazing browsable image. (Via Kottke)
Virtual Travel: Is There More to it Than ‘Staring at Our Own Roofs’?
by Eva Holland | 12.05.08 | 3:39 PM ET
In the Independent, Clare Rudebeck takes a look at how far “virtual travel” options have come since we all first used Google Earth to check out our own homes a few years back—and ponders their limitations, too.
“In the last two months, technology titans from Google to IBM have put in a concerted effort to convince us that there is more to virtual travel than staring at our own roofs. And they’re spending a lot of money in the attempt,” she writes. “...but can exploring the virtual world really give us the same sense of wonder, fulfilment and utter exasperation that real tourism delivers? What is travel without lost baggage, stomach bugs and hours spent trying to work out how to use your camera?”
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