Love this new technology! Press play, wait for the intro to load, then as you're driving around New York City on top of a yellow cab, use your mouse to look at everything - yes, left, right, up, down, diagonally. What a fun way to experience Manhattan with fully immersive, 3D interactive video...

01/23/09 by visitEarth
Tags: New York City, Manhattan, NYC, cab, cab ride, yellow cab, video, interactive video, immersive video, New York video

 

Okay, this is the next big thing (for me) relating to travel and tourism videos. This is a short 45-second fully interactive, real-time 3D video of the Grand Canyon. Meaning that once you press play and the video loads, use your mouse to rotate the camera in any angle you want to see down, up, along and behind this section, Grand Canyon West in Arizona. Fantastic!

01/23/09 by visitEarth
Tags: Grand Canyon, Arizona, Grand Canyon West, video, immersive, interactive, immersive video, immersive travel video, Grand Canyon video

 

Here's a video tour of Belize City, the old capital of Belize. The clip explores the city and neighboring regions, set to Spanish instrumental music. Quite honestly, we found Belize City not all that exciting - it's really a central jumping off point for exploring the more interesting parts of Belize, such as scuba diving in the Caribbean, Mayan ruins and the inland jungle. Nevertheless, credit for a well-produced, honest look at Belize City.

01/16/09 by visitEarth
Tags: Belize, Belize City, tourism, travel, video, Maya, Mayan, ruins, Mayan Ruins, Altun Ha

 

Here's another travel and tourism video featuring the San Francisco remix by the Global Deejays. This video is actually quite well shot, my favorite being the shot from inside the cable car on the hills downtown. Mostly these are longer shots of the Bay Area, ocean and Golden Gate Bridge; but still enjoyable to watch and listen...

01/15/09 by visitEarth
Tags: San Francisco, travel, tourism, California, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge

 

This short video shows some of the things to see and do in Chicago, Illinois - the "Windy City" along Lake Michigan. This clip focuses more on the architecture and commercial aspects of Chicago, such as shopping and famous deep dish pizzas, but my personal highlight is Anish Kapoor's giant shiny amorphous sculpture in Millennium Park.

01/09/09 by visitEarth
Tags: Chicago, Illinois, IL, USA, travel, tourism, to do, trip, shopping, deep dish pizza, pizza, windy city, Millennium Park, Kappor Scultpure