{"id":743007,"date":"2013-03-21T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=138358"},"modified":"2013-03-21T21:10:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:10:05","slug":"im-puzzled-by-chrome-world-wide-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743007","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m puzzled by Chrome World Wide Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Chrome-Maze-600x360.jpg?resize=600%2C360\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chrome Maze\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You'll never guess what <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/03\/21\/google-shutting-down-reader-is-great-news\/\" >you gave up Google Reader for<\/a>? The tried-and-true makes way for a few, ah, <i>experiments<\/i>. Newest: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome.com\/maze\/\" >Chrome World Wide  Maze<\/a>. Geekdom is abuzz about the oddity this evening. I'm simply baffled, although I see the benefits as a technology preview, which surely must be the <i>point<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially your mobile device running <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/topic\/chrome\/\" >Chrome<\/a> becomes a remote control for a 3D-maze makeover of any website. I couldn't help myself. I chose bing.com. The setup is a bit convoluted, using -- and therefore showcasing -- tab sync. The process involves opening the site from tabs already available on the other device and completing a handshake using a six-digit number. Then the fun begins, or would have if Chrome Beta for Android hadn't crashed and disconnected while my wife took photos. (Hey, every story needs art.) <\/p>\n<p>The marble maze uses WebGL and Java Script among other browser tech to make the magic happen. You'll need a phone with Chrome running Android 4.x or iOS 5 or higher and Mac or Windows PC. <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/topic\/chrome-os\/\" >Chrome OS<\/a> is <i>not<\/i> listed in the requirements, but I had no problem setting things up on <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/topic\/chromebook-pixel\/\" >Chromebook Pixel<\/a>. Nor is <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/topic\/windows-8\/\" >Windows 8<\/a> listed; I haven't tried it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, some of you may want to take Dramamine, if you knowingly suffer from seasickness. :) The ding, dingy music may sooth those people only slightly inclined while driving the irritable to rage. (The opening music gives me Sonic the Hedgehog flashbacks.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeexperiments.com\/\" >Chrome Experiments<\/a> aren't new, by any means. I had fun with the <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/03\/19\/google-peanut-gallery-is-a-brilliantly-conceived-web-speech-api-demo\/\" >Peanut Gallery<\/a> two days ago (do check it out). Chrome World Wide Maze surprises for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making over websites into playgrounds -- you choose<\/li>\n<li>Using tab sync to link up computer and phone<\/li>\n<li>Turning the phone into a remote control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can expect more of the <i>latter<\/i>. The ill-fated Nexus Q uses Android device as remote control, and YouTube works this way today on Google TV. They're just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Now excuse me while I go <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/02\/08\/microsofts-attacks-on-google-are-sad-and-embarrassing\/\" >Scroogle<\/a> bing.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> Anne Wilcox<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=6tqNXMTPJSc:l9ne2AAKTZg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=6tqNXMTPJSc:l9ne2AAKTZg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/6tqNXMTPJSc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll never guess what you gave up Google Reader for? The tried-and-true makes way for a few, ah, experiments. Newest: Chrome World Wide Maze. Geekdom is abuzz about the oddity this evening. I&#8217;m simply baffled, although I see the benefits as a technology preview, which surely must be the point. Essentially your mobile device running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}