Google Street View on steroids: Hyperlapse site creates 'flipbook' video of ANY journey Site stitches together hundreds of Street View images to create a video of any route Results look rather like a modern version of the child's flipbook Google's Street View has been given a video makeover by a Canadian firm who have used it to build videos of any journey. Known as Hyperlapses, the videos are crated using a series of still images, rather like a traditional paper flipbook. Users can enter any journey into the Hyperlapse site, and then see the results unfold as a video journey. Click below to see a Hyperlapse The site was created by Canadian design firm Teehan+Lax. 'Hyper-lapse photography - a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest - has been a growing trend on video sites,' the firm said. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse. To create a Hyperlapse, users first plot their route using Google Maps - for instance here, crossing Manhattan Bridge The site then creates a 'flipbook' video of Google Street view images To recreate the feel of a flipbook, the developers said they kept the speed of the video low. The site settings are purposely low (like having a maximum of 60 frames per animation) for greater accessibility. The idea for this project came from one of our motion designers, Jonas, as part of his Labs experiment. He wanted to explore a tool that could help him create hyper-lapse videos with the assistance of available data sets and emerging technology. The results are pretty stunning. Users can see any route where Google has pictures