INSPIRATION NOVEMBER

Today's inspiration in not Exeter as I previously thought it was going to be. That's because when I opened my Google Reader feed today Google told me something amazing.

The glasses allow you to see the virtual world"

I'm a big fan on augmented reality, mostly because I watched Dennou Coil and thought that it was a vision of the future I could fully subscribe to and although Google's announcement today isn't really to do with augmented reality in that way, it is bringing the internet, or 'the wired', and the real world closer together.

This is a Street View Trolley!

What Google have done, is taken their Google Street View Trolley, and pushed it around lots of different museums and retailers. They've also taken their Trike and Snowmobile around parks, snowy and green, so that you can enjoy those from Google Street View. You can check them all out here.

So, you can now go and see these places from the comfort of your computer. You're not really seeing them for yourself but I find this pretty amazing. The only thing left is for you to be able to interact with your environment.

Of course there are some places missing, I doubt places that charge a fee have let Google poke around in them but in the future maybe you could pay a smaller fee to the website that then be able to look around interactively? You also can't read more about the exhibits unless you zoom in on the little plaques. It would be amazing if you could click them and have the information appear!

There are so many possibilities it's exciting to think about! I wish there was a list of the different places you could visit so that I could explore one place every day or something. For now I'm just going to have fun exploring I think!

Finally, here's a video that I found a little while ago. It's not really to do with Google but here's Microsoft showing us their own vision of the future in a world where technology works perfectly and there's nobody trying to steal your identity