Have you been to The Wilderness Down

For a long time I have bitched and moaned about how websites or certain online advertising does not work in Chrome. Being such a Google child I have used Chrome for quite some time and am not a fan of other browsers. Now, as a reward (I feel) Google have started Chrome Experiments which run ONLY on Chrome. As a part of Chrome Experiments there is The Wilderness Down which involves none other than one of my favourite bands (whose new album The Suburbs is awesome) Arcade Fire.

So, you enter your hometown and then it kindly asks you to close down other applications as it takes a bit of processing space apparently.

Now, I wasn't sure what to expect, and I can't explain it in full to you, but it is like taking a multi-window journey into your hometown in a way that you probably thought wasn't possible.

I'm not going to lie, it is not 100% and some of the graphics are a bit naff, but overall it is a beautiful concept set to amazing music.

Where you even get the opportunity to interact and contribute yourself:

Visually stimulating and incredibly engaging - I can only encourage you to click on the link above to take part yourself.

If you don't have Chrome, download it here first.

LOVE Chrome

OK, now despite the fact that it does everything that it claims in this little gem of a video - how amazing is this?

It's a little slow on the uptake, but give it a chance, it is just beautiful and if you're a Chrome user, you're totally going to get it.

Swoon.

Don't forget us Chrome users!

What a lovely takeover you have done FlyBuys and DFS - All pretty and blue and looking great through Firefox...
Sucks that it completely dies when you look at it in Chrome. Sample of me and visitors to my blog, 10% of my visitors (unique) use Chrome. That's a whole lotta people that are not seeing this advertising as planned - and infact, it ends up looking really bad. That is not a transition on that top banner - that's just what it looks like.

Don't forget us Chrome users - there are more of us than you think.

UPDATED: Ok, so as Anonymous has pointed out: "This is actually an Eyeblaster issue as they do not support Chrome for wallpaper ads. Fortunately Chrome only has 2% penetration in NZ." So what is Eyeblaster up to. Sure, as they point out Chrome only has 2% penetration in NZ - but there was a point when Firefox only had 2% penetration too - gotta move with the times people, 2% penetration since December 08 - that's not bad and sure to grow.