when will we see major updates to this app?

[vidledoux]

I love Google Earth, really incredible app. But when will we see major improvements? With all the google cameras capturing images of cities, when will we get to see at least one city that integrates both aerial satellite data and street view cameras, and let us see a city with high fidelity in full 3d with complete freedom of motion? Asking a lot, perhaps, but it's hard to imagine google isn't doing this now. Hopefully Microsoft will do something better (now that they've integrated their world maps with procedural generation, soon to be seen with the upcoming Flight Simulator) and give some competition.

[NearlyComatose]

I'm looking forward to MS Flight Simulator for the sole reason of being able to see a lot more places in 3D. I study a lot of historical battle grounds using Google Earth VR, and almost all of them are still flat 2D images because the are located in "old world" places..

[TVC15]

For real. I love this app, and it had a lot of obvious places it could have gone in the future. Imagine if they included performance options to really take advantage of hardware, or included integration with your Google Maps data. Google Earth VR got a lot of buzz at launch, so I can't imagine why it s been abandoned. Maybe they've been pouring resources into a crazy version 2 that will blow us all away.

[Elixir]

I am +1 on that. This app is amazing, but I'm surprised there hasn't been an update in almost 3 years? The potential for this is amazing and it seems like they could do so much more...even if it was opened up to 3rd parties to integrate with the platform. I hope they haven't abandoned this forever.....it would be great if they could at least let folks know if they are planning anything new and what the roadmap might look like.

[xX-DMT-Xx]

Google have a habit of starting and abandoning projects. I would imagine the devs have moved onto other projects

[[DFA] Saiyukimot]

Index controls would be great

[)(eno]

I know we're not talking about major updates to the app, but at least I can confirm this program has not been abandoned as I can see that they are still updating cities around the world converting from 2d to 3d. I know that they only recently did a few in some cities in England as I have visited there on numerous occasions and now have recently gone 3d. Also, I zoomed in on my relative's house, who moved there only the middle of 2018 and her car is clearly parked on the front driveway from above and from the streetview. I suppose it will take some time to update the cities around the world - but at least it hasn't been forgotten. I would love to see some of the things from the desktop 2d app version implemented though with such things as markers and distance markers, starred places and favourites integrated from the main version. I absolutely love Google Earth VR. This should be a program that they add to over the years and is still with us in some form 20 years from now. Amazing app.

[PC Pervert]

引用自 )( ë ñ ø：

I know we're not talking about major updates to the app, but at least I can confirm this program has not been abandoned as I can see that they are still updating cities around the world converting from 2d to 3d. I know that they only recently did a few in some cities in England as I have visited there on numerous occasions and now have recently gone 3d. Also, I zoomed in on my relative's house, who moved there only the middle of 2018 and her car is clearly parked on the front driveway from above and from the streetview. I suppose it will take some time to update the cities around the world - but at least it hasn't been forgotten. I would love to see some of the things from the desktop 2d app version implemented though with such things as markers and distance markers, starred places and favourites integrated from the main version. I absolutely love Google Earth VR. This should be a program that they add to over the years and is still with us in some form 20 years from now. Amazing app.

You're CONFUSING the data layer and the app... The data are still being maintained... The app looks like it's been waived BYE BYE to a long time ago.

[)(eno]

Hmmm, not confusing anything mate. Read what I said. I stated it in the very first sentence.

[pfjarschel]

引用自 )(eno：

Hmmm, not confusing anything mate. Read what I said. I stated it in the very first sentence.

Sorry, but yes, you are confusing two things. The app here takes its data from the main google servers. The buildings you see are the same anyone would see on the main google applications (not VR). They are still updating images, maps, street views, and 3d cities for those. These changes are reflected on VR too, so that's why we get updated cities. But they don't care about the VR app itself. It is exactly the same as it was many years ago, meaning it is full of little inconveniences and not very stable (at least for me). Don't get us wrong, we also love it, but it's falling behind the new updates in VR hardware and graphics capabilities. Not to mention the very awkward controls.

[X-ray]

引用自 DFA Saiyukimot：

Index controls would be great

I would love this, I can personally make due with the Vive wand layout, but I'm showing VR to a few friends of mine and having the controller miss-match is going to make it harder to share a proper Google Earth VR experience on my Index.

[Starvingartizt]

引用自 NearlyComatose：

I'm looking forward to MS Flight Simulator for the sole reason of being able to see a lot more places in 3D. I study a lot of historical battle grounds using Google Earth VR, and almost all of them are still flat 2D images because the are located in "old world" places..

sadly the new MS flight game doesnt use google maps it uses bing or whatever and the maps are VERY outdated...lots of complaints.

[TomC2054]

引用自 Starvingartizt：

引用自 NearlyComatose：

I'm looking forward to MS Flight Simulator for the sole reason of being able to see a lot more places in 3D. I study a lot of historical battle grounds using Google Earth VR, and almost all of them are still flat 2D images because the are located in "old world" places..

sadly the new MS flight game doesnt use google maps it uses bing or whatever and the maps are VERY outdated...lots of complaints.

Ya, guys who think they are going to see their house like Goggle Earth non-VR are going to be pretty disappointed, lol!

[Starvingartizt]

引用自 tcloutier1：

引用自 Starvingartizt：

sadly the new MS flight game doesnt use google maps it uses bing or whatever and the maps are VERY outdated...lots of complaints.

Ya, guys who think they are going to see their house like Goggle Earth non-VR are going to be pretty disappointed, lol!

Also buildings are radnomly made from AI its NOT a satelite image like in google VR. it getsthe job done 8k feet up but fly low and my one story ranch is a 2 story house lol

[Charming Taintman]

yeah MS Flight Sim 2020...the world is very disappointing and uncanny and wrong and strange compaired to Google's that uses real photo data to create 3d extrapolations.

[AndrewBoy]

I'd be happy to see some updates, 1. resolution, newer VR headsets are clearly capable of delivering more pixels, up-scaling is not an option, looks "old". 2. current hardware can easily manage few gbs of memory buffer (8 gb vga is not a dream today), need to increase the distance from 100 yards to a mile or make your calculation, up to it makes since (visible difference) to make it more realistic. Otherwise I love earth VR, I bought my VR set due to the lock-down and I visited almost 50 cities in the last few month, going thru each city street by street, checking the highlights learning the name of streets, roads, directions. :)