14 DAY TRIAL // The Mountain View company prepares an innovative function for its downloadable Google Earth, the search giant aiming to implement an exciting collection of sounds. Basically, the new feature will offer an interesting view over a selected area as the program will provide high-resolution photos bundled with specific sounds of the region. New Scientist Tech reported today that the collection of sounds will be provided by Wild Sanctuary, a company owned by Bernie Krause. According to the article, the chairman collected more than 3500 hours of sounds from the entire world, in no more than 40 years.
"Our objective is to bring the world alive. We have all the continents of the world, high mountains and low deserts," Bernie Krause said according to the same source. It seems that the first implementation of the sounds will be made at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose and scheduled for 29 May. Krause plans to present 26 sounds and include them in the downloadable application and make them available for everyone on its company's website.
"He hopes it will make virtual visitors more aware of the impact of human activity on the environment in the years since he began making and collecting the recordings. Users will be able to hear various modern-day sounds at a particular location, then travel back in time to compare them with the noises of decades gone by," New Scientist Tech reported today.
In the recent period, the search giant made a lot of improvements to Google Earth, releasing a new beta version of the application without announcing it. The Google Earth version 4.1 beta has several updates such as interoperability with Google Maps that enables a user to view a certain location straight in his browser's window.