by Deb Smit, Pop City,
11/13/2008

Two Pittsburgh artists entered the world of
Google Maps Street View to create the first artistic rendering of the 360-degree mapping platform.
With the help of the Google Street View team out of San Francisco,
Robin Hewlett and
Ben Kinsley
orchestrated a fictional day in the life of Sampsonia Way and captured
it Google-style, mapping the first virtual reality story in Street View
history.
Street View allows users to click on image areas on Google street maps
and take a 360-degree tour of an area. The artists basically asked
themselves, what if we knew the Google car was coming up the street and
we could pose for the camera?
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