I can confirm Google's massive Street View camera backpack is heavy AF

What do you get when you put an almost 4-foot high backpack on someone that's barely 5'2"? 

A lot of screaming, balancing and wobbling. 

So it wasn't the most graceful when I tried on Google's Street View Trekker, one of several pieces of equipment the company uses to capture its Street View imagery.

The 3'9" foot high (1.2m) Trekker consists of 15 cameras in a ball-like shape, mounted  on a pole, powered by a computer backpack. The set up is fully waterproof, and battery-powered up to 8 hours.

It's able to capture the 360-degree images we see on Google Maps' Street View. Read more...