Google Street View Goes to the Rainforest

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Google Street View Goes to the Rainforest

Zipline through the Amazon from the safety of your desk.

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The Google Street View camera has now made its way from a car roof to a zipliner's helmet, so we can zoom through the Amazon rainforest from the safety of our work computers. Google dropped the Amazonian image set last Sunday, according to the LA Times. Move through the virtual forest and try not to think about how there's someone out there getting paid a Google salary to bum around in the Amazon with a camera on his or her head.

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