{"id":29494,"date":"2011-12-13T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29494"},"modified":"2011-12-13T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:06:46","slug":"google-street-view-now-an-fps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29494-google-street-view-now-an-fps","title":{"rendered":"Google Street View now an FPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece of news bound to excite bored housewives the world over, a Dutch ad firm has transformed<a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19988-Google\"> Google<\/a> Street View into a first person shooter.<\/p>\n<p>VentureBeat was the first to notice the project, which is being called Google Shoot View. Conceptualised by Pool Worldwide, the game lets players roam real-world streets as depicted in Google Street view and shoot stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In its current state players can shoot at people depicted in the Street View photos, but don\u2019t expect them to die or anything. In fact, don\u2019t expect anything or anyone in the \u201cgame\u201d to move at all, because it is, after all, set against the backdrop of real-life still images.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not exactly sure what the points of the project is, but we will be keeping our eyes on this one. Expect a hellish media frenzy to erupt as soon as Fox News gets wind of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iavBVfuvoc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/12\/12\/google-shoot-view-creepy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> VentureBeat<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigate and shoot at stuff against the backdrop of static Google Street view images <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1585,1584,1586],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-google-maps","tag-google-shoot-view","tag-google-street-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29496,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions\/29496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}