Chrome Web Lab is a new interactive project launched by Google. Like any new product offered by this company, he aroused genuine interest among Internet users. It is quite clear that to use the service of the same name, it is best to use the Google Chrome browser.
The Web Lab project was launched by Google in collaboration with the London Science Museum. It is a five-piece museum exhibition and a website where you can access them online. The main idea of the project is to allow website visitors to interact in real time with real exhibits. Each of them is dedicated to a specific technology, the project will be valid until June 2013.
To see the museum exhibits in action, go to the laboratory's website. Please note that the browser and video card of the computer must support WebGL technology. In the absence of such support, you will be notified of this on the main page of the site. If everything is in order, click the enter button, then select the exhibit you are interested in on the page that opens.
The first exhibit is the Universal Orchestra. Launching it, you can play eight musical instruments installed in the museum, creating your own tunes. Control is carried out with the mouse. Since there is only one exhibit, and there are many visitors, it may be necessary to stand in an online queue.
The Sketchbots exhibit is very interesting. A computer webcam takes your photo, it is immediately processed, turning into an outline picture. By clicking the Submit button, you can submit it to the museum. After that, the robotic arm installed in it will quickly draw your portrait on the sand. True, in this case you will have to stand in a rather big line. Unfortunately, the finished portrait will be erased later.
The Teleporter exhibit allows you to control panoramic webcams installed in several locations around the world - in a cafe in North Carolina, in an entertainment center in Holland and in the Cape Town Aquarium. Having selected this museum exhibit, you will see three round windows corresponding to the three installed webcams. Choose any of them - for example, the first one. You will immediately "teleport" to a cafe in North Carolina, you will see an image from the camera installed in it. You can rotate it 360o with the mouse, this will give you a full panoramic view. In addition, you will be able to take photos of what you observe. The picture from the entertainment center is less interesting, but the panorama from the Cape Town Marine Aquarium will allow you to watch the fish. By turning the camera, you can follow any inhabitant of the aquarium you like.
The next exhibit in the museum is Data Tracer. It allows you to find where a particular file is physically stored. Compared to the previous exhibits, it is less interesting and simply shows the path to a specific point on the map. The same can be said for the museum's fifth exhibit, the Lab Tag Explorer, which shows on a map where the lab's visitors are and also counts their number. By visiting the laboratory's website, you can independently test all the exhibits of the London Science Museum.
