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08-04-2016, 01:11 AM
Google Maps app turns learning into a game with a monster as your avatar
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Google is great when it comes to helping users harness its data to learn about our world (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/google-project-bloks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), but a new tool geared toward children takes that dynamic to a new level by turning maps into a kind of game.*
SEE ALSO: Google Earth gets a fancy new look thanks to NASA satellite data (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/new-google-landsat-satellite-data/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Verne: The Himalayas (https://verne.withgoogle.com/) is an app that uses the three-dimensional data from Google Maps and presents it through the guidance of a 500-foot tall friendly Yeti named Verne.*
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Image: google*
The app, which uses the Unity Game Engine (http://mashable.com/category/unity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), allows you to control the cartoon-style Yeti as it walks, runs, hand glides, skates and even jetpacks around the Himalayan Mountains.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/google-maps-game-himalayas/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Google is great when it comes to helping users harness its data to learn about our world (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/google-project-bloks/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), but a new tool geared toward children takes that dynamic to a new level by turning maps into a kind of game.*
SEE ALSO: Google Earth gets a fancy new look thanks to NASA satellite data (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/new-google-landsat-satellite-data/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Verne: The Himalayas (https://verne.withgoogle.com/) is an app that uses the three-dimensional data from Google Maps and presents it through the guidance of a 500-foot tall friendly Yeti named Verne.*
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/Y6E5cIAJoeW2s4rUjA2glwjME7M=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F166031%2FVRNE.jpg
Image: google*
The app, which uses the Unity Game Engine (http://mashable.com/category/unity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), allows you to control the cartoon-style Yeti as it walks, runs, hand glides, skates and even jetpacks around the Himalayan Mountains.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/google-maps-game-himalayas/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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