A Camel Captures the Liwa Desert for Google Street View

Thanks to Google and a camel, you can now explore the vast expanse of Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Desert from

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Thanks to Google and a camel, you can now explore the vast expanse of Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Desert from your own computer. After documenting Brazil’s 12 World Cup stadiums this summer, Google recently took to the Arabian desert, employing a camel and a giant rotating camera to cleverly capture the setting as the latest addition to Google Street View. The result gives users a sprawling, 360-degree view of the desert’s sand dunes, as a 62-mile stretch of oasis was captured in its entirety. Check out the making-of video above and take a closer look at the final results of the project here.

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