Visit the Forbidden City from your PC
If there’s something I love about software and the Internet, it’s the ability to achieve certain things that otherwise would be really difficult to accomplish. From traveling around the world with Google Maps to finding your friends from childhood in Facebook, it seems that these days a computer is enough to make any dream come true… even if that dream is visiting the fabulous Forbidden City in China.
IBM and the Palace Museum in Beijing have joined forces to create an incredibly faithful virtual recreation of the Forbidden City, the massive imperial palace from the Ming dynasty. The Virtual Forbidden City is a 200-MB file that provides you with a immersive experience while walking the vast squares and magnificent buildings of this mysterious complex, a World Heritage Site since 1987.