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Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait" video explained

by Michael Joffe

While it’s sure to get more attention than other experiments, Arcade Fire’s new interactive video for We Used to Wait is just one of many new technical implementations of HTML 5 matched with Google Maps. Chrome Experiments has gone instance by instance and explained what’s going on behind the scenes -some of the more interesting techniques used are dynamic colour correction of Google Street view images and compositing animation over those tiles in real time. Oh, and choreographed animation and video browser windows? Not bad either. Get the play by play here.