Play an Orchestra at the London Science Museum in Chrome

The web is part of our everyday lives, but still feels disconnected somehow, there's still a distinction between the "digital" world and the "real" one. Google, along with the London Science Museum, is working on fixing that with a set of Chrome experiments with a physical component, dubbed the Web Lab.

People from around the world, not just museum visitors, can go to the specially designed website and launch any of the five experiments.

They can then work together, or separately, and interact with the installations at the museum, again, even if they're logging in from Japan or from the very room the installations reside in.

In fact, people outside of the museum are privileged as they're able to play with any of the experiments 24h a day, but the museum closes at night.

"This idea that science and technology can inspire people is one that we hold close to our hearts. It’s also the thought behind a new exhibition we’re launching today online and at the Science Museum in London," Google explained.

"We hope to inspire people around the world by showcasing the magic that the Internet makes possible," it said.

Each of the five experiments is actually designed to showcase a modern web technology, WebGL, websockets, various HTML5 features and so on. People can get together and play an orchestra, or they can "teleport" to various places around the world and see what it would be like to be there, in real time.

"Please join us online or at the Science Museum in London (entry is free), and let us know what you think. True to its name, the year-long exhibition is a working lab, and we’ll continue to tinker with it based on your feedback," Google added.

Obviously, this being Google, you'll need Chrome for any of this to work. But this being the web, some of the features work fine in Firefox and other modern browsers.



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