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Do you know that you can travel without leaving your home, without leaving your workplace? And all you need is your computer and internet access. Until quite recently, we could not imagine that this was possible. Of course, it is better to see new cities and continents with your own eyes, walk along the streets, listen to the pronunciation local residents, try National dishes, wander around the museums. But, this is not always possible. Here they will help us virtual travel. 10 services for virtual travel
In addition, not all interesting places on our planet are available for travel. The underwater world or the top of the Icelandic waterfall. Walk into the stratosphere. Low flight over the rooftops of Paris in real time. All this seems impossible. But, virtual tours, maps and satellite communications give us the opportunity to participate in these tempting adventures.
Let's see how technology has advanced over the past few years. We offer you an overview of the best programs and services for virtual travel. Where to go - decide for yourself, but do not limit yourself. There are more possibilities than it seems at first glance.
Panoramas 360cities.net
360cities.net shows us the world in all 360 degrees. These are great detailed panoramas. Tens of thousands of photos, very detailed shots from all over the world. By the way, not only ours. There is data from the rover, so we can go into space, look around at another planet.
You can walk around London, turn your head in all directions on the top of Nepal. Any of your desires is feasible, virtual travel is fast and free. In some images, the resolution is so high that you can see the faces of people in the windows of houses. Can you spot yourself somewhere?
Google photo tours
More recently, GoogleStreetView has fascinated travelers. Now this is no surprise, and Google has come up with something more interesting. Photo tours allow you to take a walk through the most interesting places on the planet. For example, walk along the Taj Mahal or climb the Eiffel Tower. Paris, London, Dubai are waiting for you right there.
There are non-standard tours for connoisseurs of protected areas. Here, for example, the salt mine in Wieliczka, climbing the Chichen Itza pyramid (Mexico). Explore all the tours, there are unexpected offers. Even diving.
Do you want to ride in Russia? Then you are on RusMap.net, which also uses Google services. So you can easily plan a real trip by looking at the upcoming route in advance. Then your real trip will be easier, more enjoyable and less unpredictable. Especially if you are going to Big city with a confusing street system.
Google street view app
Let's not forget about the good old "Street View", which fits even on the phone. The app is available for Android and iPhone.
By the way, it is not necessary to use it only in emergency when someone gets lost. Are you on the subway? Get distracted by the panoramas of other cities, walk around the center, turn into small side streets. Venice, Paris, Barcelona, Europe and Asia - all at the touch of a button.
Such walks can last as long as you like. Or, just remind yourself of your summer vacation by running one more time along the familiar street of your favorite city.
Panoramas Yandex
Yandex is not far behind Google. From a bird's eye view, you can admire the cities of Russia. For example, St. Petersburg is well represented. Here is Palace Square for you in all its details, a walk along Nevsky Prospekt. You can even ride through the canals if you want. By the way, these maps are more visual. You can view the map and panorama at the same time.
Please note that Yandex is developing successfully. It's not only Russia, but almost the whole world. Try all the possibilities for fast travel or preparing your trip.
Air Pano
Air Pano is an amazing and ingenious project. It was not easy to implement it, but the team did it 100%. And this is not the limit. Everything is realized thanks to spherical aerial panoramas.
All that you to be seen filmed in high resolution, - here the company showed its best side. Very detailed, well thought out pictures. You rotate the panorama, viewing the smallest details of a geographical feature.
How is it done? Anything that flies can be equipped with a camera. Balloons, planes, drones... Different angles, different vision of the same objects. This results in a spherical panorama. And you can scroll it with the mouse as many times as you like.
So they shot the northern lights, glaciers, waterfalls, volcanoes, tropical islands and Mountain peaks. It is difficult to get here on foot, but by air it is quite accessible. So, you have a great opportunity to inquire about what is happening on the Bromo volcano or the island of Java.
Many panoramas are supplied not only with the names of objects, but also with descriptions. So, it's also educational.
Youtube 360 video files
Another interesting service in our piggy bank - 360-degree video. So we swam in Venice, for example. The boat slowly sails past the Doge's Palace, goes around the Venetian Lagoon, glides along the route. Look for such videos on Youtube, Air Pano.
Video trips on Vimeo
With the help of slow motion, you can create real miracles. You can easily verify this if you use this service.
Vimeo.com has hundreds of interesting video compilation. With their help, you can get the necessary dose of inspiration for planning a new trip. The real one, of course. All the most romantic, interesting, distant, mysterious corners of our planet with slow-motion mode. There is the Golden Gate Bridge, Norwegian sunsets and northern lights, the golden pagodas of Myanmar. Stay tuned for updates as they regularly add to the vimeo.com collection.
Virtual Museums
We have already written about world-class museums that you can visit without leaving your home.
Google global project. The idea is excellent: to unite all museums, large galleries, exhibition centers into a global network. From anywhere in the world you can travel through the halls, see the expositions of the most interesting cultural and scientific centers of the world.
Already more than 60 objects worldwide the globe took part in the project. Another global project Art Project.
There are tens of thousands of paintings, works of art in the "base" of Google. The key here is detail. You can see every stroke of the famous painting. For example, Van Gogh's Starry Night. We bet that even if you see it with your own eyes, you will not be able to examine it in such detail, get closer to it the way you want?
All the most interesting museums of the world want to take part in the project. Already today you can make free virtual tours of the Louvre, the Acropolis, the British Museum, the Doge's Palace.
Webcam on the ISS
Now even more interesting! We can go to space. The ISS also has cameras that broadcast everything that happens in outer space. Who knows what we might see there. Broadcast always online so you'll always be up to date latest news from orbit.
Everything happens slowly, but sometimes this is how you need to observe our blue planet. There are interruptions in communication, but, you know, these are already interplanetary technologies. The most interesting thing is the exit of astronauts into outer space. Of course, you won’t see this every day, but such video broadcasts will be a pleasant surprise.
Webcams around the world
To see what is happening right now in the Maldives, in New York or in a neighboring city, just find the nearest webcam. Now they are everywhere.
earthcam.com has a huge collection of webcams from all over the world.
On the site a-russia.ru you can admire the corners of the Crimea and Russia. Plus many more places around the world.
On the slopes of the mountains and the most famous routes, in the center of world capitals, on the islands of any seas. It is very comfortable. Don't believe in the weather forecast? See for yourself how things are right now at your final destination. Traveling becomes easier, travel preparation moves to a new level. Often you have to try to find a camera with a good signal, but it's worth it.
A young project, perhaps for the first time in Runet, fully implemented the idea virtual tours. You are walking through an unfamiliar city, listening to a guide and turning your head wherever you want - all this is now possible on the "Virtual Travel" website!
"Virtual journeys" - "virtual journeys"
The craving for travel comes to us gradually. As a child we read Jules Verne, in our youth we watch films about distant countries, and then - various "Cinema Travel Clubs". This is how we gradually develop a passion for exploring the world.
Website Virtual-journeys.com is one of the links in this chain. Here you can make an online trip to many tourist capitals of the world and get the same experience as a real tourist: see the most important sights under the fascinating story of the guide.
You can make "virtual travel" in two ways. Moving around Google StreetView is performed automatically and the tour can be watched like a normal video. But you can interfere in the process ( Google panorama remains interactive) - direct your gaze in any direction, zoom in and out of the image. And all this - under the fascinating explanations of the guide.
London at Virtual-journeys.com
"Virtual tours" provide the maximum approximation to a real walk through the streets of the city; it's hard to say where you can see something more spectacular.
There are 19 cities of the largest tourist caliber in the "cage" of "Virtual Travels". Their number is gradually increasing, and if this continues, the site will take away a lot of customers from the publishers of paper guides.
Beautiful Florence
Attention is drawn to multilingualism Virtual-journeys.com. Of course, Russian is enough for us; but it's still impressive that tours are offered in ten languages, including Japanese and Korean.
If you encounter any inconvenience in your online journey (maybe the voice of the virtual guide will tire you), take into account that, on the other hand, you are provided with good weather and does not threaten the human sea of Chinese tourists.
world capital Entertainment Las Vegas
Although the site "Virtual Travels" appeared only this summer, it has confidently headed for the elite of Internet tourism projects using Google services. Which is not a sin to remember:
- - virtual tours from Google to the best museums in the world (but without a guide)
- - interesting places on planet Earth
- - interactive time-lapse video based Google StreetView
- - interesting geography game
Undoubtedly, virtual travel cannot and should not replace real travel with all their range of vivid sensations and impressions. But they help us see any corner of the earth for free, even if you yourself can never visit it. Moreover, it is very convenient way receive mass in advance useful information and plan your future travels.
You can fly in the stratosphere over the entire planet or over the roofs of Paris and St. Petersburg, look into the halls of the British Museum or the Kremlin treasury, find yourself among the mountains and waterfalls of Iceland or in the amazing underwater world of the Galapagos Islands ... Stop dreaming, there are no more barriers in front of you!
1. 360cities.net panoramas
As poets describe the world with poems, artists with paintings, composers with music, 360cities.net describes the world with picturesque panoramas.
Here are collected tens of thousands of photographs from all over the world, and not only ours - there are even panoramas of other planets from one interesting rover. Here you will enjoy a virtual tour of the capital of Nepal, the city of Kathmandu, or to study the panorama of London, which was filmed with such high resolution that you can see people's faces in the windows of houses.
2. Google Photo Tours
Of course, the ability to view streets on Google StreetView maps has long been a surprise. But not everyone may know that the participants of this project are still fond of creating photo tours and entire virtual trips.
These photo tours give you the opportunity to walk around Taj Mahal, look at Dubai from the world's highest 800-meter skyscraper Burj Khalifa, for the whole of Paris with one of three viewing platforms eiffel tower or travel to Mexico to the pyramids Chichen Itza. There are also unusual travel, for example, descending into a salt mine similar to an underground palace in Wieliczka (Poland) or immersion in the present undersea world in dozens different places, for example, at Galapagos Islands.
For traveling around Russia, check out RusMap.net (using Google services) - this is an understandable and affordable service for those who often travel on business trips, like to travel, or are just about to hit the road. Regardless of the goal, Rusmap will make the trip as pleasant and comfortable as possible.
The panorama option allows you to virtual walk in the cities of Russia. Perhaps such an Internet journey will be the impetus for taking a real one.
3. Google street view app
When I travel, I often use the Street View app. It is available for Android and iPhone. The application allows you to view many panoramas located on the world map.
There are panoramas of users and panoramas of Google itself. The service is developing rapidly and the number of panoramas is increasing before our eyes.
I myself observed the fascinating process of creating a panorama on special equipment. But each of you will be able to add your panoramas using your smartphone and obeying the commands of the application.
4. Yandex panoramas
Yandex is also actively developing its cartographic service, and on its maps you can look at the cities of Russia and the world from a bird's eye view. For example, fly over Palace Square Petersburg or above the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir.
Yandex maps, perhaps, are more visual than Google, there is a panorama and map view mode at the same time.
5. Air Pano
The amazing project of another Russian Air Pano team is a rare case of enthusiastic professionals creating products at a level that was previously only subject to wealthy Internet corporations. Spherical aerial panoramas, or rather whole Air Pano aerial excursions, in terms of the beauty and quality of the footage, will easily give odds to both Google and Yandex.
Filming is carried out literally from everything that can fly: from airplanes and balloons to airships and radio-controlled drones. Now the site has about 2000 panoramas from the most picturesque corners peace. Here you can visit the island of Java on the Bromo volcano or see the Kremlin from the air from different angles, admire northern lights in Iceland or admire one of the islands of Hawaii, visit Petra in Jordan and even look inside the famous Treasury.
In addition, when viewing a panorama, you can switch to another camera by simply clicking on the helicopter symbol.
Panoramas are not only colorful, but also informative. Many are labeled with the names of visible objects.
6. Youtube 360 video files
Even more immersive and fully immersive experience is provided by 360-degree video. You can easily look to the right or left, for example, when sailing past the palaces on a boat in Venice.
360-degree videos can be searched on Youtube, but can also be found on Air Pano.
7. Video trips on Vimeo
You will be surprised what miracles a good photographer can do with the help of the time lapse technique (slow motion). This is a great way to show even familiar places in a whole new light and inspire travel.
Fine selections of such videos are collected on vimeo.com. Hundreds of videos provide an opportunity to visit the most beautiful places planets. You can admire the golden pagodas of mysterious Myanmar, the northern beauty of Norwegian sunsets, the romantic views of the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or other stunning shots from around the world.
Another global Google project is dedicated to art. That's what it's called: Art Project. Behind the modest name lies an incredible exposition - tens of thousands of paintings from the best museums in the world. Moreover, each filmed in such a high resolution that you can, for example, examine in detail each stroke of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" or look into the eyes of the boyar Morozova Surikov.
Many museums kindly allowed us to film not only their expositions, but also their premises. And now you can, without getting up from your chair, stroll through the halls of the Hermitage or the Doge's Palace in Venice, or visit the Museum of the Athenian Acropolis.
If you are a creative person, then such virtual tours will save your time and money, and you will get no less aesthetic pleasure from works of art.
9. Webcam on the ISS
Are you fascinated by the unexplored expanses of the universe? Then watch the broadcasts in live from a webcam on the International Space Station. You will have the feeling that the camera is somewhere very close, and not 400 km from the surface of the planet.
The image slowly but surely changes throughout the day and you can see for yourself that our blue planet is in perfect order. However, please note that the video is only available when there is a signal from the Earth, otherwise you will only see the splash screen. Sometimes on video you can see the life of astronauts and their spacewalks.
P.S. Did you like to walk around the world virtually? Will such virtual tours help you prepare for visiting some interesting places in real travel? Are there video panoramas in your collection that are breathtaking? Share with us in the comments to this article your impressions and findings ...
Also, don't forget to tell your friends about this new opportunity explore the world.
Real-time 3D city maps or virtual walks
To my great surprise, I found that many people are not familiar with such a concept as " Street panoramas» on the maps. I hasten to fill this gap.
For the first time, the opportunity to travel through the streets of the city without leaving your computer appeared on google maps, and for obvious reasons remains the most pumped on this particular service.
In the window below, you can take a virtual tour of the city of Moscow. Use the navigation arrows in the upper left corner of the image. You can also change the viewing angle using the arrows on the keyboard. To move around the picture, you can click in the image area. The arrows on the streets of the city show the routes. You can change your position on the city map by dragging the yellow man in the lower right corner of the image with the mouse:
State Tretyakov Gallery
And in this interactive window you can take a virtual online walk through the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery! In the upper left corner of the image, you can switch between the floors of the museum, which is very convenient:
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
"Street panoramas" can be compared to the study cities from satellites in real time. After all, driving into the search " Moscow from satellite in real time» users probably want to see the nearest streets or even their house in the best possible way. Unfortunately, this cannot be done from a satellite in real time, unless special equipment is used.
And for ordinary users who do not want to bother with unnecessary problems, “Street Panoramas” will come in handy, they act as a full-fledged replacement satellite maps, plus give full review the place we need.
And if you want to walk around such megacities as New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Barcelona and Prague without leaving your home, then be sure to check out our articles:
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Also you can see " Disneyland Paris on the 3D map».
Well, if you want to do travel with satellites in real time, then you are here.
Separately, it is worth mentioning that so far you can go on a virtual walk in Russia only in Moscow using the Street Panoramas service from Yandex.Maps.
In addition to walking, this service allows you to:
- make a trip around the city and see the sights;
- plan a trip route in an unfamiliar place, looking at the junctions with your own eyes and road signs;
- look around the house when looking for a new place of residence;
- print a photo of the place you need.
Happy travels!
