Color me impressed with this one: Prague-based 360 Cities, a network of ‘Virtual Reality’ photographers promoting high-resolution spherical imagery, has integrated its portfolio of stunning 360° panorama shots into the Featured Preview Layer for Google Earth.
A collection of the panoramas just became visible automatically to every user of the free 3D earth visualization software, and the rest of the 360cities database, which is nearly 10,000 spherical images strong, has been added to the Gallery in Google Earth as well. Some of these are breathtakingly beautiful: check out this shot of the Berlin holocaust memorial, or the inside of this Iranian mosque, or this market place in Gambia, or the Cuban corner bar I embedded below.
I love seeing people outside of Google doing their best to enhance the Google Earth experience, although it must be said that the company is doing its part too. Recently, they made it possible to visit Ancient Rome in 3D.
Note: this only works with the latest version of Google Earth (4.2), which features the new PhotoOverlay format. You can download the KMZ file here.
this is one great software for navigation or tourism. If people are aware of this beauty, users ll stick to this software..
my score 5/5
I still love Panedia.
this fecility is very importent thing for travelrs.
Are there plans to have this added to Google Earth on iPhone?
Google Earth is already out for the iPhone and available for free from the iTunes app store. It’s pretty cool
I’ve been watching 360 cities for years now, and the mass of images to explore from some most unexpected places is really impressive. It makes “browsing” Google Earth a lot of fun! Well done, guys!
Well done to Jeffrey and the team. This is really taking Virtual Tour photography to the masses, and now anyone with Google Earth (many millions) can travel all over the world, and look around in 3D.
Its awesome to be a part of this!
(PS: Check out South Africa)
definitely a cool product, but I wonder what their revenue model is…
This is very nice. Google earth making real earth virtually. thanks to the contributors to Google SketchUp.
Here You can See Ancient Rome in 3D.
My friends use this when traveling!