Arcade Fire’s recent HTML5 project, “The Wilderness Downtown,” is a noteworthy piece exemplifying many of the new bells-and-whistles HTML5 is capable of. Developed in collaboration with some ‘friends from Google’, the execution of this project is simply stunning and the intentional attention to detail is impeccable. According to Google the site exhibits,

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering…this Chrome Experiment has them all.

The site is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas. We here at Kalos Interactive spend many hours surfing the web and this is a gem you simply cannot miss. Give the link below a click, type in your address, and allow the prodigiously engaging interactivity to begin!