An online version of the city of Laguna Beach went live today. “The Laguna Beach Experience” shows outdoor and indoor settings of more than 25 restaurants, hotels and businesses.

The site was made by Massachusetts company EveryScape, in partnership with the Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau and Laguna Beach Magazine.

An automatic tour is offered, or visitors can move around on their own by zooming down streets and moving the cursor to look around at each stop. Pointing the camera toward the the ground reveals a blue van that was presumably used to take the pictures seen on the site.

It appears that the online Laguna Beach was created by stitching together thousands of images taken every few hundred feet. A job listing on the site asks “Do you want to drive the streets with EveryScape’s special roof-mounted camera?”

Some businesses have paid to be part of the Web site — either through pop-up windows that display business information, or with a 360-degree tour of the inside of the business.  Those offerings are arranged by Laguna Beach Magazine.Of course, you could always take an old-fashioned stroll through the real city. Once it relaunches, you can walk through MTV’s Virtual Laguna Beach as any character you please in the world created in Laguna Beach’s own Makena Technologies.

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