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August 02, 2007
Travelling a virreal (revisited)
In an earlier post I mentioned the possibility for traveling a virreal. The possibilities have increased tremendously since. First, you can browse photo-sites and find the spot where the photo was taken instantly (and even vice versa). Second, through the uprise of microblogging you can easily join a friend in their real and virtual/online occupations. Third, the service StumbleUpon let's you roam the Internet like a through adventurer.
However, the sites you come across are still more like travel 'tools' than travel 'destinations'. I tried to envision my idea for virreal travel in the following picture; the actual site should be a reward in itself.
(Thanks to the great IA webtrends map by Information Architects Japan)
Posted by Almar at August 2, 2007 12:53 PM