metex.jpgHav­ing just returned from one of my favour­ite cit­ies in the world, I was fas­cin­ated to find a Paris Metro Vir­tual Exper­i­ence. This media-rich site offers won­der­ful his­tory of the Paris Metro and the oppor­tun­ity to take a vir­tual tour with static images and rel-time soundtrack along a num­ber of lines. Addi­tion­ally, the author of the site has com­pleted sta­tion by sta­tion archi­tec­tural mosa­ics of par­tic­u­lar lines. If you have ever had the oppor­tun­ity to travel on the metro (argu­ably one of the most effi­ciently run sys­tems in the world) this site may bring back some memor­ies.
The won­der­fully rich com­bin­a­tion of media is an example of vir­tual tour­ism, well-done, without hav­ing an live motion video. It would be quite fun to put a cam­era in the front of one of the fully auto­mated lead cars on Line 14.
This pro­ject was sub­mit­ted as final term pro­ject at the Uni­ver­sity of Kent by Richard Whit­taker in 2005. Great job!
On a sep­ar­ate note, a tour­ist I spied tak­ing advant­age of the new rental bike sys­tem in Paris had actu­ally taped his video cam­era into the front bas­ket of the bike and was obvi­ously going to cre­ate a great bike’s per­spect­ive tour of Paris.