• Google offers you virtual TransSiberian tour (it takes 10 days)
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Thanks to a new project by Google Maps, travel buffs can experience traveling the Trans-Siberian Railway from the comfort of their couch. Google Russia, in partnership with Russian Railways, is offering free "virtual journeys" along the entire Trans-Siberian Railway, beginning in Moscow at the Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal and ending in Vladivostok, a port on the Pacific Ocean. The video shows the view from a train window on the rail route that spans two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The entire trip takes days to complete and Google has provided audio entertainment for the virtual journey. [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/google-street-view-gets-t_n_458681.html"]Link[/URL] The virtual tour available here: [U][B][url]http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html[/url][/B][/U] I recommend you to switch on satellite mode and to zoom in on Google map. I wonder does anybody have a courage to watch it for 10 DAYS!? That's how it was made: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtyz2rPPXWw[/media]
That's pretty cool. But if someone really wants to see it, they should probably just get off the couch and go there themselves. :v: Lazy people.
Holy crap that's long.
Too bad you won't get the great excitement as you would get if you go there in person
I'm leaving it running, but I have school so I'll be watching it in segments.
hl2 train @ 0:40
[QUOTE=j-richardson;20268434]hl2 train @ 0:40[/QUOTE] Holy shit. :aaa:
I thought this was a live feed.
[QUOTE=j-richardson;20268434]hl2 train @ 0:40[/QUOTE] Well HL2 does take place in eastern Europe...
Awesome saves you loads of moneyz
Someone has to watch the whole thing all the way through. I'm very tempted.
Cool, now we can travel without moving. Talk about lazy.
Cool, now I can be deported into a Siberia to mine coal right from my Computer chair!
Already started watching. Just wondering why the video says it's only 7 minutes long? Never mind, it goes to the next video automatically.
om nom nom, this is awesome
Overused Andrew Kramer [url=http://videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/]Earth Zoom[/url] tutorial right at the end... :frown:
[QUOTE=Xploder;20271279]Overused Andrew Kramer [url=http://videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/]Earth Zoom[/url] tutorial right at the end... :frown:[/QUOTE] Oh dear, you too? If you've watched a couple of them you start seeing them everywhere.
Needs moar ak47's, communism, and f40ph
I give it 50 years and we gonna kill real tourism with the virtual one.
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