Last year The Google Art Project and YouTube partnered to bring you virtual tours of famous museums around the globe. This month, the Google Art project and Google Street View team have gotten together to bring you another nifty project—a virtual tour of the White House.
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You watch them on YouTube, “like” them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter, but now MysteryGuitarMan, DeStorm, Dave Days, Ricky Ficarelli and more of your favorite YouTube stars are breaking out of the screen and coming to a city near you on The Digitour.
Quiksee, an Israeli ‘virtual reality touring’ company, was acquired by Google yesterday and is joining Google’s expanding Geo Team. Anyone can pin video files onto Google Maps via QuikSee and provide 3D visual street tours on map query search results. This addition is strengthening the already firm grip that Google Maps has over location based services and local business advertising. Israeli newspaper Haaretz was the first to state that the acquisition is estimated at $10 million dollars. Quiksee will account for the 20th company acquisition by Google in 2010. Google has been on a roll in acquiring social media companies such as Slide, Jambool, and Aardvark in efforts to become the top dog in social technology. This is the second Israeli company snapped up by Google in less than 6 months, following the purchase of LabPixies this past April for a substantially higher price of $25 million. Read more
Since Google TV was announced in May the Internet has been abuzz with talk about what the new platform means for the future of television, but we had yet to see this new future with out own eyes. Last week, Google published a video tour of the platform that gives us some more insight into the various ways that Google TV will revolutionize the television viewing experience. Check out the video after the jump.
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