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On November 16, 2016, Google released a virtual reality version of Google Earth for Valve's Steam computer gaming platform. [90] [91] Google Earth VR allows users to navigate using VR controllers, and is currently compatible with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive virtual reality headsets. On September 14, 2017, as part of Google Earth VR's 1.4 ...
Google Expeditions was a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google and designed for educational institutions. Using Android or iOS smartphones , the companion mobile app and head-mounted displays such as Google Cardboard or Daydream View , students (or other users) could take virtual trips to various destinations.
Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. [1] He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 [2] [3] to produce Google Earth.
The success of Cardboard convinced Google to develop more advanced virtual reality hardware and appoint a new chief of virtual reality. [42] Google announced an enhanced VR platform called Daydream at Google I/O on May 18, 2016. [43] The platform's first headset, the Daydream View, was released on November 10, 2016. [44]
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical, safety or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings).
In the metaverse in Snow Crash, there is a piece of software called Earth made by the Central Intelligence Corporation (CIC). The CIC uses their virtual globe as a user interface for keeping track of all their geospatial data, including maps, architectural plans, weather data, and data from real-time satellite surveillance.
Tango enabled apps to track a device's position and orientation within a detailed 3D environment, and to recognize known environments. This allowed the creations of applications such as in-store navigation, visual measurement and mapping utilities, presentation and design tools, [9] and a variety of immersive games.
Earth3D was developed as part of a diploma thesis of Dominique Andre Gunia at Braunschweig University of Technology [1] to display a virtual globe of the earth. It was developed before Google bought Keyhole, Inc and changed their product into Google Earth. Earth3D downloads its data (satellite imagery and height data) from a server while the ...