Didsbury Design Blog » street view http://blog.didsburydesign.com Web Design and Development Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google Unveils Virtual Panoramas of Ski Runs At The 2010 Winter Olympic Games http://blog.didsburydesign.com/2010/02/google-unveils-virtual-panoramas-of-ski-runs-at-the-2010-winter-olympic-games/ http://blog.didsburydesign.com/2010/02/google-unveils-virtual-panoramas-of-ski-runs-at-the-2010-winter-olympic-games/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:29:10 +0000 Didsbury Design http://blog.zero7web.com/2010/02/google-unveils-virtual-panoramas-of-ski-runs-at-the-2010-winter-olympic-games/ Google has added the Winter Olympics slopes to its Street View , allowing people to see the same view down a mountain as a skier about to push off in their quest for gold.

Engineer Dan Ratner explained: “In typical scrappy Google fashion, we were able to put this together over a few weekends. We used extra pieces from our Street View cars, some 2×4s, some duct tape, and a lot of extra hard drives.

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