Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight. But this is a great experience for checking out landmarks, and other famous public places in a one-for-one scale. Squishy geometry and fuzzy textures will make some of your favorite real-life locations look like they’ve been ripped out of an N64 game. Some of Google Earth VR’s content looks really, really crappy, though. Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well. You can also go to wanted locations, if they are covered by the Google Earth VR. From there you can rotate the globe and choose where to begin zooming in.
When you start exploring, you begin your journey looking at the Earth from space, just like in normal Google Earth. Now, all that visual data is used to make Earth in Virtual Reality.
The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. This is somewhat a surprise project from Google’s Geo team, both just announced and released today. Originally created by Keyhole under the name EarthViewer 3D, Google played with developing 3D models and similar improvements, ultimately leading to the release of Google Earth VR. Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program.
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