Sneak a peak at Holiday Decorations on Shop Windows via Google Business View

Google Business View introduces Virtual Shop Window Gazing

Originally introduced as a part of Street View, Google Business View has always been making it easier for shoppers as well as business houses across cities make the best out of the internet. Since 2011, Android users have had the ability to view and peruse a collection of photographs and panoramas of commercial buildings, stores and marketplaces, thanks to the upgrade on the Google Maps application.

Come December and the Holiday Season ushers in gusty cold winds and harsh winter chills. Though it’s the best time for shopping and finding some great deals, what’s simply excruciating is the idea of getting clad in layers of winter clothing, mittens, uggs and all, even to take a walk to the shop down the street. And huddling into public transport with scores of last minute shoppers just for a glance at the ever-popular store window displays flaunting new releases isn’t a very appealing task to endure.

Fret no more because Google is here with a neat little plan that will let you gape at shop windows all you want without anyone noticing and from the comfort of your very home with its heater and steady supply of steaming hot coffee.

Google Business View is revamping the static image collection of physical stores across your city with remarkable virtual tours taking you across favorite brand stores and outlets. So dwellers of New York and London can level up your window-shopping game by being able to browse multiple showcases at a time and explore every nook of the stores themselves.

It doesn’t get easier than this because all you’d have to do to stop by at your shopping destination and have a look at what’s presently in store, is to simply launch the Google Maps site on your PC or smartphone and zoom in to your city and streets and narrow down to the outlet, say Saks Fifth Avenue. The image then pops up showing the store front with a link to “See Inside”.

Google’s official blog post also provides direct links directing you to the virtual tour of each store filmed and digitized on the Google Maps database.

However, Google Business View has developed a catalog of only the most immensely popular stores like Macy’s with its legendary Santa and his Elves arrangements, Bloomingdale’s with its magical lights in the spirit of the New Year’s Eve and London’s very own paradises — Selfridges and Liberty London.

Google Business View hopes that this new feature will attract more shoppers to try out the virtual tours of the shop interiors which will hugely benefit the businesses as well.

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