{"id":1424,"date":"2014-10-12T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2014-10-12T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T17:45:27","slug":"google-dune-view-putting-360o-cameras-on-a-camel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/12\/google-dune-view-putting-360o-cameras-on-a-camel\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Dune View? Putting 360\u00ba cameras on a camel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a unique perspective on the UAE&#8217;s Liwa Oasis\u2014the largest oasis in the Arabian peninsula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pVCToDTbT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s\u00a0Najeeb Jarrar <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/roam-arabian-desert-with-street-view.html\">explains<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To bring this stunning desert to Street View, we fashioned the Trekker to rest on a camel, which gathered imagery as it walked. Using camels for the collection allowed us to collect authentic imagery and minimize our disruption of this fragile environment.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this collection gives you a glimpse of what it may be like to travel the desert as caravan merchants have for the past 3000 years. Should you make the journey here in person, who knows\u2014you may meet some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@23.0676603,53.7881193,3a,75y,34.64h,98.24t\/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s8DnM9PEXca75ZrHhyf4sbg!2e0!3e5\">new friends<\/a>. To see more, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/views\/streetview\/liwa-desert?gl=us\">Street View gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4pVCToDTbT4\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a unique perspective on the UAE&#8217;s Liwa Oasis\u2014the largest oasis in the Arabian peninsula.&#8221; Google\u2019s\u00a0Najeeb Jarrar explains, To bring this stunning desert to Street View, we fashioned the Trekker to rest on a camel, which gathered imagery as it walked. Using camels for the collection allowed us to collect authentic imagery and minimize our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}