Beautiful use of HTML5 – The Wilderness Downtown

So here’s something very cool.

The Wilderness Downtown

You’ll need Chrome to view it properly, but it is a very nice showcase of what HTML5 is capable of rendering.

They use choreographed windows, interactive flocking, and 3D canvas rendering to produce an amazing example of interactive web browsing.

From the localisation of Google Maps’ views to a very distinctive typeface that is partially user generated, it really showcases how much more interactive the web could become. It’s brilliant.

You can find more information out about it here.

But, I have to admit, I just spent ages just playing with the flocks of birds as they fled my mouse.