Nothing can replace the joy of new experiences and discoveries. Unfortunately, this is not always possible - and then virtual reality comes to the rescue. In this article, we will offer you several ways to see the world without leaving your laptop.
Google Photography Tours
The city street view mode on Google and Yandex maps has become an interesting feature. Some of the project participants, in addition to professional filming, create photographic tours, allowing you to travel online to remote cities and towns.
Thus, you can walk around the Taj Mahal mausoleum , climb the Burj Khalifa or view the panorama of Paris from one of the 3 sites at the top of the Eiffel Tower . There are also more unconventional options, such as going down to the Wieliczka Salt Mine or scuba diving . The whole secret is to find the "entry point".
"Yandex" offers similar options with immense cities: you can imagine yourself as a dove and settle down on a monument to Prince Vladimir, which is quite suitable for such cases, near the Kremlin, or play with a camera over Leningrad 's Five Corners Square .
Air Pano
Air Piano offers a "journey" using panoramas and individual images taken from airplanes, helicopters, balloons, drones, airships and aerosons. The rarest case when a bunch of enthusiasts manage to beat a megacorporation: the results of this team's work will be plugged into the belt by Google, Yandex, and everyone else. Currently, about two and a half thousand images have been uploaded to the site - from the aforementioned Kremlin to the landscapes of Iceland or Greenland , the mouth of a volcano or Petra in Jordan .
Virtual museums
This is another Google project dedicated to art. That is what it is called - " Art-Project" . Hidden behind the unassuming brand is an astounding display of tens of thousands of paintings from the collections and vaults of the world's best museums. The canvases were shot in such a high resolution that every detail can be easily seen.
A number of museums, like the Palazzo of the Venetian Doges or the Athenian Acropolis , allowed to capture not only paintings, but also interiors.
International Space Station webcam
If the Martian adventures of "Curiosity" are transmitted with delays and are often abrupt, the broadcast on the ISS is carried out non-stop, as if there were no four hundred kilometers of near-earth space, solar wind, radiation.
Other webcams installed here and there
If you are not a fan of space or are afraid of heights, you can pay attention to more mundane things - take a walk along Abbey Road after the Liverpool Four or instead of a relax video broadcast from the Atlanta Zoo , where you can watch the leisure of several cute pandas.
The earthcam.com website contains thousands of such broadcasts, both from large metropolitan areas such as New York, Moscow or London, and from all over the lonely planet.
Party on YouTube
You can walk along the Beijing or the Japanese capital, the ocean coast or the foot of the cliff from which the Angel Falls falls, in the many channels of YouTube. Important: look for 4K quality video, there are quite a few of it on the net.
Wildlife travel
Photographers complain that wildlife is not easy to capture. The photographer's own smell serves as a hindrance: the animals either get scared or want to eat you. The Englishman Burrard-Lucas found a good solution: he puts cameras on flying, running and driving cars so as not to frighten the animals, which allows him to get close to them by a few centimeters.
Panoramas at 360cities.net
The panoramic photographs collected at this world famous site defy description. In addition to countless terrestrial photos, there was also a place for panoramas taken by the camera of the Martian guest "Curiosity". An annoying fact: these are not the most popular shots on the platform. Apparently, space has lost its magic and no longer beckons.
However, there are countless attractions on our planet - from views of the capital of Nepal or London docks to various parts of Chicago or areas of New York . The detail in the images is so high that you can see the plumage of a pigeon or an office broker secretly smoking in the toilet.
Video travel on Vimeo
There is such a thing as time-lapse - slow motion. In fact, this is often not a video recording, but often taken photographs. However, why often? It can take up to half an hour between shots. You can find great selections on YouTube, but most of them are on Vimeo, a service specifically created to host this kind of content.
Hundreds and thousands of video clips allow you to enjoy views of the best places on the planet. Sunset on the prairie, the romance of the Golden Gate in San Francisco or the smoking hills of Kamchatka volcanoes - all this is available to you for free.
