Having 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.
