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With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch ti
by neither_color 6y ago
With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch time unfold and witness nearly four decades of planetary change.
This is amazing, will this be included in the VR versions of google earth? For those who haven't tried it yet Google Earth is the first thing I show friends who've never tried VR before by giving them a Godzilla's eye view of Tokyo. I've yet to find someone who doesn't ":o"
- hawk_ 6y agoAre there headsets other than HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that work with it?
- mrguyorama 6y agoAny headset that can use SteamVR, so like, damn near all of them
- Rebelgecko 6y agoIt works on all the usual suspects (anything that supports SteamVR). Valve Index, HP Reverb G2, WMR headsets, Oculus Quest (via link cable or wifi streaming) etc
- crazygringo 6y agoI can't find any way to get it to work with the Quest on my Mac. (Short of installing Bootcamp that is.)
- Rebelgecko 6y agoUnfortunately SteamVR dropped Mac support last year
- Impossible 6y agoGoogle has bailed on VR apps (for the most part, Owlchemy is still there), so I imagine not. It'd be cool if Google Earth VR was opensource like Tiltbrush. Like Tiltbrush it was one of the foundational early VR apps that people demoed, it's fun to imagine a world where Google continued to put money into VR, but I'm actually not sure how that fits into their business outside of just another platform for Android.
- gpspake 6y agoIt's a shame. Google Earth on VR is probably the most amazing and practical use for VR for normal people at the moment. I like to street-view in to other countries and stand in the middle of crowded places with people around me imagining that it's a thousand years from now and humanity is gone and it's the documentation of life on earth. I've had good times passing the headset around in a room full of people to share places we've been. It's also cool to look down, as a giant, at paths you've taken irl and get a sense of scale. I love google earth in VR
- vidar 6y agoWhat headset did you use?
- StavrosK 6y agoI don't know about the GP, but I use a Quest 2.
- saurik 6y agoVia Link? (I hadn't ever gotten around to verifying that would work. I partly ask, as the Google Earth VR experience was particularly epic in a way the Google Street View app--which was available on Quest--was not, even if the latter still causes a feeling of wonder in me... and the GP is talking about street view and people surrounding their position and the such.)
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- 101008 6y agoI have a Play Station VR headset and it's awesome but I always felt sad that I coudln't experience this. How is the experience? I know a lot of friends felt sick when we play a space videogame or some game where the environment isn't clear and they can't see where they are standing, I guess having a view from outer space can trigger same feelings.
- andybak 6y agoIt's got the usual "comfort controls" (i.e. vignetting while moving). If you leave those switched on then it's OK for people that haven't got their VR legs yet. But - yeah - with everything switched off it can be at the "intense" end of the spectrum.
- appleflaxen 6y agoIt's amazing. The motion sickness factor isn't zero, but its' small.