Saturday, 31 December 2016

Google Sheep View: Creature-Mounted Cameras Map Rugged Faroe Islands

quote [ Powered by solar energy and mounted to the backs of sheep, 360-degree cameras are mapping out the Faroe Islands for Google Street View. Since Google was initially reluctant to send cars to the archipelago, locals took it upon themselves to get their own interactive images out into the world...

Sheep View 360 got its start when resident Durita Dahl Andreassen first strapped a camera to a sheep, let the animal roam free around the island then uploading the results to Google. “I gently placed a 360-degree camera powered by a solar panel on the back of a sheep that would take photographs as the animal freely grazed the open hillsides,” explains Andreassen. ]

Faroe Islanders improvise a way to get local images on Google Maps, Google decides to help out.

[SFW] [Virtual & Augmented Reality] [+3 Original]
[by HoZay@10:33amGMT]

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HoZay said @ 6:37pm GMT on 31st Dec
There are probably whole herds of Pokemon roaming free and unmolested.

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