Brace yourself for perhaps the cutest views ever to appear on Street View. Google has scaled down its hardware to capture Hamburg’s Miniatur Wunderland — the world’s largest model railway.
Google worked with Ubilabs to build a series of miniature Street View vehicles, shown in these pictures, that could travel around the model landscape and capture the scaled-down world in beautiful detail.
There’s certainly a lot to explore: a fictional town situated between the Alps and Harz; a recreation of Hamburg itself, complete with soccer matches and Oktoberfest celebrations; even a condensed take on the US, including the Grand Canyon and a Las Vegas strip. Go take a look.
It’s all captured from the point-of-view of vehicles travelling through it, so the scenes look disturbingly real, like this:
[Google]
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