The Wilderness Downtown is a Google Chrome experiment which I can only describe as an “automated music video” which will take a street address, and make a music video featuring that location.
The Wilderness Downtown is one of the more extensive Chrome experiments, and definitely one of the coolest. Using different, smaller browser windows, The Wilderness Downtown creates frames for video, similar to what you would see in a typical music video. Street data is pulled from Google Maps to integrate any address into the music video. Though the site indicates that this experiment requires Chrome, FireFox will work fine (though the titlebars do not disappear in FireFox).
The intent of Google Chrome experiments are to demonstrate new HTML5, Javascript, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL technologies. There are many more Chrome experiments that you can check out. They range from all sorts of uses (from many uses to absolutely none) and all ranges of creativity.
