Google has released a free new version of Google Earth on a totally different computing platform: Virtual Reality (VR). Google imaginatively calls it Google Earth VR. Specifically, for now, this ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/11/google-releases-google-earth-vr-htc-vive.html
Malaysia and Tunisia have recently received their first 3D imagery. Tunis and Sfax in Tunisia and Sungai Petani in Malaysia. The interesting upside down triangle architecture of the Hôtel du Lac...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/09/malaysia-tunisia-get-3d.html
Steven Ho, whose work we often cover has recently updated a Google Earth animation he first created back in 2007 showing the Maokong Gondola of Taipei. We covered his original 2007 version in thi...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/08/4d-gondola-google-earth.html
I still remember the first time I used Google Earth and how my sense of wonder grew as I realized the amazing capabilities of the program to portray our planet Earth at new levels of detail with ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2016/02/space-engine-to-inifinity-and-beyond.html
Did you know Google Earth has a free built in flight simulator and you can fly all over the world? It has been there since 2007, and in the meantime computers have gotten way faster and the data ...
This has been a big week for Mars with the new NASA discovery of flowing water on the red planet, and the release of a blockbuster movie “The Martian” based on the New York Times best seller ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/10/explore-mars-in-google-earth.html
As we mentioned in our month-end post, over the last couple of months, Google has stepped up the rate at which they are releasing 3D imagery. Most notably in the last week Google has added areas ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/05/google-rolling-3d-extraordinary-rate.html
While looking around Cape Town, South Africa in Google Earth recently, we noticed a 3D model of a large South African flag on Devil’s Peak. It is the old type of 3D model from the Sketchup 3D w...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/03/flag-devils-peak.html
By the time you read this, it will already be 2015 in the Line Islands of Kiribati, as it is the first location on Earth to celebrate the new year. It is an interesting fact about the peculiariti...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/12/3d-fireworks-google-earth-2.html
We have in the past shared our holiday greeting card in the form of a KML file you can download and view in Google Earth. This year, for Christmas, we have taken inspiration from our Halloween Pu...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/12/santas-village-google-earth.html