Enjoy the First Skydive and Mountain Scenery on Google Street View

Enjoy the First Skydive and Mountain Scenery on Google Street View

Adventure is a taste that can be acquired or inborn. For many of us, it is acquired and demonstrated in the need to travel to exotic or remote places where we try to conquer the challenges that nature puts before us. That requires a unique and a special skill resulting in a very few who manage to accomplish the task at hand. However, with Google street view, things are taking a turn. Now, people can do many different things and put them out there for the world to see. The achievement, accomplishment and satisfaction associated are what push people further into being adventurous.

Google Street View

This is an app that allows you as the user to participate in checking out the famous landmarks, cities, forests and other wonders of the world at your own convenience. It offers you a chance to be adventurous; be in places you have never been before and have the adventure longed for without leaving your house. Google Street View has a unique way of showing people new places for travel, leisure, business, fun etc in a way that is enticing and attractive to those viewing it. It brings out the magnificence or the magic a destination has to the surface.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality
Google Street View offers a virtual tour. A virtual tour involves using your computer to enjoy the different activities the world has to offer without leaving your home. It entails using a virtual reality software or app that allows you to have a live experience. The app or software swaps the space around you with that of the environment where the dive is occurring making you feel all the elements that the divers feel once they jump out of the plane or allows you to develop it as you wish. This ensures originality of the experience and ownership once you have participated in the activity. Furthermore, it is cost friendly not having to pay all the fees required to go on a sky diving spree.

Decision

Google Street View came up with a brilliant idea to skydive, take a video or photographs of different sceneries, and post it online on Google Street View. This was seen as an impossible task but a certified photographer from Google Street View saw the possibility of the whole project and operation. The idea to ensure that the mountain regions of New Zealand including the coastal beaches could be seen on the photographs taken during the sky dive. Teaming up with one of New Zealand’s skydivers Abel Tasman and sky diving operator, they decided to go for it. Just like that a decision was made and the first ever skydive pictures made their way to Google Street View.

Google Street View

Benefits

For those who love visiting different places and engaging in exotic and unique activities, participating in the Google Street View skydive is a great if not an amazing experience. It starts at around 16,500 feet in the sky as captured by the skydiver and the photographer. It captures beautiful blue scenery encompassing of the sunny beach and a green mountainous region offering a mixed color picture. The images are forever edged in your mind once you experience the tour on Google Street View. With the consideration that he divers were falling at 125 miles once they jumped and were headed for the national park below, the images are perfect.

The skydive jumps were conducted for many days, which require a lot of input especially if aiming at capturing the world in a 360-degree angle and vantage point. This enables you to see the world curving wholly before nearing the earth and having a better view of how the land curves into the ocean. All this can be done without leaving your computer, no waivers or certificates including licenses to sky dive out of the sky are necessary, all you need is a virtual tour and you achieve one of your greatest dreams.

Skydive Benefits

The virtual tour is one of the safest means of sky diving without fear. This is because you are in your house and minimizes the chances of being injured, chute not opening or any other accidents that may occur while diving. Furthermore, you get a better view of the coastline, see the different mountain beaks and the sandy bright beaches and how all of these integrate and complement the other i.e. natures splendor and generosity to human kind.

See Also: Google Earth VR – a Complete New Experience

Conclusion

As an individual, sometimes we are limited as to what we can and we can’t do. In many scenarios, it is the finances, safety or the elements involved. This makes it difficult to partake in interesting activities i.e. those areas that draw adrenaline from our bodies and ensure we feel that gush of excitement before it begins. Google Street View now provides a solution to all the fears. You can now partake in different activities, visit any place in the world that is on the maps and even partake in a sky diving experience. Catch a trip each time the Google Street View crew are visiting a different place, enjoy the different hikes, trek with others and engage in whichever activity you desire.