Avalanche Lake: These National Park Service virtual tours are very cool and thanks for mentioning them, And eventually interactive movie realistic in 3D and group-buildable, Could the National Park Service fund a kind of realism in a virtual world that would help them respond to forest fires and global warming in real time?, They could easily dovetail with a developing realistic virtual earth and for virtual Harbin ethnographic research too, "Methodologies for ethnographically studying virtual place," Apropos the Tourism Studies Working Group on Friday evening at UC Berkeley, I'm glad to be giving a talk at UC Berkeley on Friday, November 6th on methodologies for ethnographically studying virtual place - and re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

Hi Ed (founding former World University Board Member), 

These National Park Service virtual tours are very cool and thanks for mentioning them ... 

http://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtour.htm

http://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/photosmultimedia/etours.htm

http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/virtualtours.htm and eg

http://www.nps.gov/features/glac/LMSeTour/centennial_eTour.html.

And they could easily dovetail with a developing realistic virtual earth and for virtual Harbin ethnographic research too - and eventually interactive movie realistic in 3D and group-buildable. 

Are they what you had in mind? 

The building of a Creative Commons' licensed realistic virtual earth for virtual tours and STEM research, and via the National Park Service, is a wonderful idea (and eventually in all countries' main languages) ... and it would dovetail too with making a field site for my Harbin research and next Harbin book! Indexing my actual / virtual Harbin book is both laborious and an interesting re-visiting of my book. 

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Could the National Park Service fund a kind of realism in a virtual world that would help them respond to forest fires and global warming in real time?

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May begin to explore posting some of more of my poems - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry - aiming for bliss and loving bliss to Soul Flash email list - soulflash@yahoogroups.com - out of India ... :)

Fondly, 

Scott

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Visit the Harbin Gate now in Google Street View, and walk down the road to Middletown, California here -

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.785962,-122.651913,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sZvCvdrcS5wPenGS_nB4JtA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!6m1!1e1

... and add some of your photos, as Google Earth invites ... and per "ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy"


(see, too: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/08/baby-philippine-flying-lemur-with.html).

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This 3D realistic build able interactive virtual earth is a new planned revenue stream for World University - and on the Creative Commons' licensed - which I'll add here: 

http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/08/wuass-business-plan-update-and-with.html.


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The above partnerships would be in addition to the now THREE planned revenue streams based on the 501 c 3 WUaS and Creative Commons licensed (plus possible upcoming ones in the Commun spreadsheet with Julian - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVdpiEsRsnEFpSUINzZTyrL2eMsiickgkSwx_AA9Uxc/edit?usp=sharing - who will come to WUaS MBM next Saturday; could he become Chief Translation Officer eventually?) . 

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Apropos the Tourism Studies Working Group on Friday evening at UC Berkeley, I'm glad to be giving a talk at UC Berkeley on Friday, November 6th on methodologies for ethnographically studying virtual place - and re http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

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