![]() I swooped myself around, standing above the castle and mountainside. A road curved along the mountain, dipping in and out of view through the tree cover. A perfect, little castle nestled amidst the evergreens, towers and turrets modelled and textured. I’d expected a blob the shape of a loaf of bread with a scuzzy texture baked into it, but it was like looking at a doll's house. I gave an audible gasp as a perfect, fairytale castle, cupped in a tree-studded German mountain range, resolved in front of me. In my case, it was Neuschwanstein Castle. Google are smart: when you load in, you usually find yourself in front of something remarkable. I thought I was past that sort of technology-as-magic reaction, but since I tried out Google Earth VR on my Vive I've been shoving it on visitor's faces ever since. Your mum and dad would be amazed, and you would be lauded because you showed them their old shed viewed from a satellite on the same thing they use to look up recipes. There used to be a time when you could impress your family by loading up Google Maps, finding a childhood memory, and zooming in until it became a sort of pixellated memory lane.
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