Google's View Of Vancouver Olympics Has Street Credibility

If you can’t make it to the 2010 Winter Olympics, which start this Friday in Vancouver, Google has given you the next best thing.

Following in the vein of their Street View Car (which was essentially a 360 degree camera mounted on top of a car), and their Trike (the same thing but on a tricycle), the brand has now launched the Google Street View Snowmobile.

Created by Daniel Ratner, who also engineered the Trike, the snowmobile will be driven all around the Games, so anyone at home can experience high-quality images from several event locations. So far it has captured the peaks where the alpine skiing events begin, the top of the “7th Heaven” chairlift, and runs on the Whistler Blackcomb Mountains.

With the company’s road/off-road/snow trifecta, Google has proven that it can take a camera anywhere.

What’s next, a sand buggy through the Sahara? A Zamboni across Antarctica?

With this brand, nothing is out of the question.