“If you’re considering a visit, you can virtually soar over the building, finding the entrances and get a sense of what’s in the area,” Google Geo VP Chris Phillips said during the presentation. Immersive view also faithfully depicted the museum and panned around it, almost as if it were a building in a SimCity simulation game. In the demo, Google Maps homed in on the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

And it layers helpful information on top like the weather, traffic, and how busy a place is,” the company says (Opens in a new window). “Using advances in AI and computer vision, immersive view fuses billions of Street View and aerial images to create a rich, digital model of the world. The feature is called “Immersive view” and Google introduced it on Wednesday during an event touting the company’s latest advancements to improve online search and mapping.Ī demo depicted the city of Amsterdam as a 3D recreation, allowing you to view the area from various angles. Google Maps can already give you satellite and street views across a location, but now the app is taking things further by recreating several major cities as explorable 3D simulations. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.

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