{"id":145491,"date":"2022-09-02T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/googles-immersive-street-view-could-be-glimpse-of-metaverse"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:23:54","slug":"googles-immersive-street-view-could-be-glimpse-of-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/googles-immersive-street-view-could-be-glimpse-of-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s immersive Street View could be glimpse of metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-immersive-street-view-could-be-glimpse-of-metaverse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years after its launch, a Google Maps feature that lets people explore faraway places as though standing right there is providing a glimpse of the metaverse being heralded as the future of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>There was not yet talk of online life moving to virtual worlds when a \u201cfar-fetched\u201d musing by Google co-founder Larry Page prompted Street View, which lets users of the company\u2019s free navigation service see imagery of map locations from the perspective of being there.<\/p>\n<p>Now the metaverse is a tech-world buzz, with companies including Facebook parent Meta investing in creating online realms where people represented by videogame-like characters work, play, shop and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years after its launch, a Google Maps feature that lets people explore faraway places as though standing right there is providing a glimpse of the metaverse being heralded as the future of the internet. There was not yet talk of online life moving to virtual worlds when a \u201cfar-fetched\u201d musing by Google co-founder Larry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}