I just came across a very interesting World Heritage Site web presence by way of a link from Jundo Cohen.

I’ve previously posted about telepresence and technologies that allow us to “be there” for face to face interactions over the internet. The World Heritage Tour is a collection of Quicktime 3d panoramas that allow web users to be “telepresent” and look around at many world heritage sites themselves. As more and more photos and videos are geo-tagged, I hope we will see virtual “web tourism” leveraging technologies like Microsoft Photosynth in the future.