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CMU Approved
Approved: Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait video
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 1 September 2010
Arcade Fire have teamed up with the cool dudes at Google to create an interactive video whatnot thing for their latest single ‘We Used To Wait’. Basically, you plonk your postcode into a box and the video then uses Google Street Map to personalise what appears before you in various windows by showing pictures of things near where you live.
It’s kinda cool, and I didn’t even watch it in Google’s Chrome browser, as recommended. Take that, Google! It definitely worked in Safari, and Firefox just about managed to hold it all together, as well. As a quick demonstration of the potential of HTML5 coding, it’s quite impressive. As a demonstration of how good Arcade Fire’s new songs are, though, not so much.
