14 DAY TRIAL // Google recently celebrated the addition of the 500th creation to Chrome Experiments. But now it's introducing one experiment to outshine them all, albeit one with its own homepage.
Created by Cirque du Soleil, the concept anyway, and making use of pretty much all of the latest technology a browser can leverage, Movi.Kanti.Revo transports users to a magical world, one they have to explore themselves.
And, for once, exploring this world doesn't mean clicking around, though you can do that too, but actually exploring, using gestures and touch.
"Movi.Kanti.Revo comes from the Esperanto words for moving, singing and dreaming. In the experiment, you can follow a mysterious character through a beautiful and surreal world to encounter enchanting Cirque du Soleil performances and live an emotional journey made of love, doubts, hopes and dreams," Google explains.
If you've ever used a Kinect or seen one in action, you'll feel right at home with the new experiment.
As long as you have a webcam and a browser that supports getUserMedia, that would be Chrome, Opera and Firefox with a bit of work, you can enjoy the experience without ever touching your mouse.
You can also check out the experiment on your mobile phone or tablet, which should make it more interesting, but you'll get a slightly different version tweaked for mobile devices and browsers.
This is made possible by WebRTC, well one portion of it, but it's not the only modern web technology in use. The sound uses HTML5 audio and everything you see on the screen is placed and moved via HTML and CSS.
Movi.Kanti.Revo was created by Cirque du Soleil and built by Subatomic Systems. Google had a hand in all of this of course, which is why you're going to get the best experience in Chrome. Still, the nice part is that it only uses standard web technology, granted, some that hasn't been implemented by all browsers just yet.
