The new feature, introduced at Google I/O 2022, gives a rotating 3D view of cities from the air, with live traffic and weather. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over ...

The feature gives you a simulated bird's-eye view of a city from various angles and lets you peek inside shops and restaurants. Google Maps can already give you satellite and street views across a ...

Immersive View for routes gives you a multidimensional preview of a journey, allowing you to pan around the area you're navigating whether you're walking, cycling, or driving. Google Maps is about to ...

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Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...

Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities, ...

Tesla introduced new features in China with the 2023.44.32 software update, and among them is a cool 3D map view that baffled Americans. Many would want to see this coming to the US, but since this is ...

In the face of increased competition from Apple Maps and its 3D city views, Google today introduced its own vision for its next-generation Google Maps with a preview of its new more “immersive” ...

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Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy. Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope, astronomers ...

A new 3D map can take you 4,000 light years from the sun–without ... “That’s why we are confident that our top-down view and fly-through movies are a good approximation of what these clouds would look ...

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