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Offline BrewingRover

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Google Streetview takes you inside an LHBS
« on: November 10, 2011, 09:10:46 pm »
On Chicago's North Side

I'd read that they were going to start doing this for businesses. Here's the full street address
3625 N Kedzie Ave  Chicago, IL 60618
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Re: Google Streetview takes you inside an LHBS
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2011, 12:25:16 am »
On Chicago's North Side

I'd read that they were going to start doing this for businesses. Here's the full street address
3625 N Kedzie Ave  Chicago, IL 60618

That is f'ing cool man. I can almost imagine shopping virtual reality-wise like this.
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Re: Google Streetview takes you inside an LHBS
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 01:20:39 am »
As I wandered through the store I KNEW what it smelled like.  You can read the hop prices in the reach-in!

Very cool.
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Re: Google Streetview takes you inside an LHBS
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 06:19:16 am »
As I wandered through the store I KNEW what it smelled like. 

I bet Google's working on that as well.
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Re: Google Streetview takes you inside an LHBS
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2011, 06:36:31 am »
also check out new advances in 3D mapping technologies by C3 Technologies. They were just recently purchased by Apple, so look for big improvements on iPhone mapping to come. we're really catching up with sci-fi, walking your avatar through the online LHBS and buying products probably is not far off. smelling the hops may be a bit farther out, but certainly conceivable. though aroma is pretty damn complex. meeting each other in a virtual pub and talking/seeing each other isn't that far off. tasting the beer? may take longer.
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