Let’s go, Take the World’s Biggest Selfies in Australia

Recent year, increasing people like to post their selfie on the social media ,especially during the travel period . However, there are much troubles when taking the selfies. one of the troubles is it's too hard to see anything past that grimacing face bang, slap in the center, selfie sticks are easily involved. Even，sometimes，it will cause the security issue.

Now, In order to promote Australia and attract more consumer, the Australian government decide to help tourists take bigger and better selfies that include the environments around them. They has come up with a new service for taking selfies in which the self is just one part of an epic widescreen landscape. The service are being dubbed ‘GIGA Selfies’, which billed as the world's biggest selfie service. Travelers can get the service at Australia's Gold Coast which is one of the most popular and visited Australian destinations.  Tourism Australia Managing Director John O’Sullivan says that the “‘GIGA Selfies campaign will help to raise the level of conversation about Australia as people share their experiences of holidaying here with their friends and family back home.”

This project is a part of a bigger campaign aimed to attract younger, more media-savvy travelers to the beautiful shores of Australia’s Gold Coast.  Specifically, they hope to lure a more Japanese tourists to the continent, as Japan is also a key market for Tourism Australia ,in the past year alone more than 320,000 Japanese visitors travelling here, contributing more than $1.4 billion in visitor spend, and many of whom are known for their love of social media  and their very active digital presence.

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It is easy to use the “GIGA Selfies” service. Which you need is not a a super-sized selfie stick or folks but to download the “GIGA Selfies” app , then the only things you need to do is to stand on a designated spot and use the app to trigger the camera in the distance, which will captures you and the surrounding landscape. After that , both the photograph and accompanying video will be emailed to you, and then you can share with friends and family. You can see a closeup photograph of yourself and download a short video clip which starts as a close up selfie and pulls back to the real location to show your surrounding and how far you are from the camera).

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“GIGA Selfies” uses a high definition camera and cell phone technology to take photos big enough. The high powerful camera located around 364 feet away. The camera and lens are special, 100 times more powerful than typical photo gear, so it could screen you and everyone in your vicinity.

However, because of the costs and logistics, the service is only scheduled for deployment in the Gold Coast, although the promotional video includes multiple spots around Australia. About the future, the project will be determined after its debut.

Reference: 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/worlds-largest-selfie-australia-labor-day/

http://petapixel.com/2015/09/01/australia-wants-to-help-you-take-the-worlds-biggest-selfies/

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/02/travel/australia-giga-selfie/

http://www.news.com.au/travel/tourism-australia-launches-giga-selfie-the-worlds-biggest-selfie-for-japanese-tourists/news-story/88043b298d4a1cf673b3a422777b016f

https://youtu.be/LQNexfnYg8E

Sha Hu & YiMin Jiang