If you had visited the Australian War Memorial late last year, you might have encountered a mechanical trolley with a camera affixed to the top whizzing around the site, or perhaps seen someone wandering around with a backpack that looked suspiciously like the lovechild of C-3PO and R2-D2.
But it wasn’t a security scare, nor was there a sci-fi film being shot in Canberra. The futuristic contraptions belonged to a team of visiting experts from Google, using the same Street View technology that is used in Google Maps and Google Earth to document the building in film.
Google expands ‘virtualisation’ of Australian cultural institutions
March 14, 2015 by ·
