The National Park Service of the United States celebrates its 100th anniversary. Google also hopes that everyone can travel through the 360-degree interactive tour to enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. "The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks" will lead the audience to appreciate most of the mysterious areas of the National Park and have local administrators explain the scenery along the way.
The travel plan is available online through the Google Arts&Culture app and is available on both IOS and Android platforms. Google has further designed the virtual reality compatibility of tourism and is now available through the Google Adventure App. Now, teachers can use Google Tray to lead students to explore these remote and magical places together.
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Earlier this month, researcher Randy Olsen published an optimized road map for 47 national parks in the 48 states of the United States. Olsen used the “Traveling Salesman Problem Solver†to calculate the fastest way to play each place. The total travel time was about 2 months, and the journey length was about 23,000 kilometers.
Mikah Meyer and Adam Larsen have further expanded the Olsen roadmap to a total of 375 national park management sites. The trip included George Washington's birthplace, the Statue of Liberty, and necessary highway travel sites that were ignored by the Olsen roadmap.
The two travelers had to miss some of Hawaii and Alaska's beautiful landscapes such as the Kenai Fjord and the Hawaiian volcano because the plan was not feasible. Fortunately, Google's virtual travel can be designed to fill this gap.
Although Google’s online travel plan is cool, it can't be compared to its own experience. “We hope to make people feel the fun of the wilderness in a simple and easy way. We also encourage new generations of park visitors to set off on their own adventures,†said Nick Carbonaro, creative director of Google, in a statement. "Get ready to risk it!"