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Google Maps updates Street View rendering and controls
Google has detailed a slew of updates over at its Developers Blog aimed at making Street View rendering less crummy, courtesy of some tweaks to the Maps JavaScript API. Among the resulting improvements are smoother transitions from place to place, thanks to more frames and better loading animations, as the system has switched from repeating old images, which resulted in a stuttering effect to… Read More
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Experience Street View In Virtual Reality With Google Cardboard
A lot of us chuckled when we saw Google Cardboard for the first time, but it’s actually quite genius. Google shared today that its virtual reality experience Google Cardboard is now available in 39 languages and over 100 countries for both Android and iOS. The developer docs are now in 10 languages, to make the VR experience even more worldwide. The 15 million installs of Cardboard apps… Read More
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Google’s New Street View App Lets You Browse 360-Degree Imagery, Share Your Own Panoramic Photos
It’s no “street view for cats,” but Google’s newly launched Street View mobile app does promise to make it easier to explore Google Map’s immersive, 360-degree imagery as well as contribute your own photos to improve the overall Google Maps experience.
The app, which is actually an update and rebrand of Google’s older “Photo Sphere Camera,”… Read More
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Google Maps Now Lets You Scale Yosemite’s El Capitan Mountain
El Capitan is already something I associate almost by default with Mac OS X, but it was a real mountain before that – millions of years before Apple previewed OS X 10.11, in fact, though it only got its name in 1851. Anyways, it’s the real mountain, not the Apple operating system, that Google now lets you virtually climb in Google Maps with its first ever vertical Street View… Read More
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