This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth.

Peer launched Global Simulation, a real-time digital Earth where players use avatars to connect by location and build relationships in a living, spatial network.

Google is announcing ... to bring a vastly improved 3D layer to Google maps. Using photogrammetry, the same technology that also allows Microsoft’s Flight Simulator to render large swaths ...

While the book famously has a hand drawn map of Middle-earth, it has now been brought to life and lets people take a tour of the fictional landscape from the air, as well as through a Hobbit’s eyes.

Thank you to GEB reader Paul Moskowitz for bringing to our attention the fact that opening the flight simulator in Google Earth Pro automatically turns off the 3D buildings layer. The reason for ...

For most uses, Google Maps is a flat, 2D app, and if your device can handle more graphics and a bit more data, you can fire up the Google Earth 3D data set ... cars that drive through the roads ...

It’s the first driving simulator I’ve played with since the new 3D imagery came out ... Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a variety of geo ...

KorinVR, a Unity engineer, has released a '3D car simulator ' that allows you to drive a car on Google Maps. You can drive ... can be handled as it is on the earth scale because it is a double ...

At a press event in San Francisco this morning, Google announced that it will soon feature far better 3D maps in Google Earth ... was with TechCrunch from 2012 through 2025.

Earth is getting its first major update since 2012 with staggeringly cool 3D ... Maps. This update appears to be an attempt to make Earth more than a pleasant diversion. The web version of Google ...

But now, nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein—the man who taught us that beer can survive the apocalypse—has translated the experience to a 3D Google Earth map that lets you simulate rapture in ...

The unnamed Reddit user decided to use the Google Street View mode in Google Maps to "walk" through the streets when he spotted two ladies near a building. Wanting to get a closer look ...