Disney, Google Street View announce first ever WDW Virtual Marathon
Finally, a marathon for the rest of us.
WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Disney excels in providing races and events for athletic fans, and even some for slightly-less-athletic fans. But there have been no events for the couch potatoes among us -- until now.
RunDisney.com has announced its 2020 slate of races at the Walt Disney World Resort and Spa and Track Arena, and for the first time, there is a "Virtual WDW Marathon" available for non-runners!
Guests at large
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Man using Street View billed for ‘virtual park admission’
Disney hails "virtual guests" as new revenue stream.
PROVO, UT -- It's a fact of modern life that every one of us clicks to accept Terms of Service without reading or understanding what we are agreeing to. One Utah man found out the hard way that he should always read the fine print.
The next best thing to being there?
Edgar "Sonny" Larson of Provo, UT, recently had some time to kill, so he opened up Google Maps on his computer. As a Disney ...
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Study: Street View in Disney parks most used to stare at churro carts
"We thought people would go all over the parks, but once they find a churro cart, they stop."
Just two weeks after Google announced that its Street View service was expanding to feature the interior of all 14 Disney parks worldwide, an internal study shows that most folks use the service to find and then stare at churro carts.
The next best thing to being there
Google launched Street View in 2007, providing a way for viewers to see the world from street level ...
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