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Monday, August 30, 2010
Today we’re excited to launch a musical experience made specifically for the browser, called “
The Wilderness Downtown
.” The project was created by writer/director
Chris Milk
with the band
Arcade Fire
and Google.
“The Wilderness Downtown” is set to Arcade Fire’s new song “We Used to Wait”, and showcases many of the latest developments on the web. It features a mash-up of Google Maps and Google Street View with HTML5 canvas, HTML5 audio and video, an interactive drawing tool, and choreographed windows that dance around the screen. These modern web technologies have helped us craft an experience that is personalized and unique for each viewer, as you virtually run through the streets where you grew up.
Browsers and the modern web have indeed come a long way since Chrome was introduced, and we hope this project provides a glimpse at some of what the future holds. The project was built with Chrome in mind, so it’s best experienced in Chrome’s
beta
or
stable
builds. To launch the project and learn more about how we made it, please visit our Chrome Experiments site at
www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire
.
Posted by Thomas Gayno, Google Creative Lab
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