This has been quite a week for Google, especially with the announcement of Google Wave at the Google I/O Conference. Not to be ignored, Google Earth has been quietly rolling out some nifty features, including business listings. Today, Google Earth has added 3D tours of buildings, bridges, baseball stadiums and more.
The tours are self-running views into buildings, bridges, museums, skyscrapers, stadiums and castles from around the world, most of which were built Google SketchUp users who model buildings for Google Earth.
To play a tour, you need to activate the “3d Buildings” layer in Google Earth. Then you can click the “Start tour here” link in the “Places” panel in Google Earth (make sure you have download the latest version of Google Earth).
How is this post not any more irrelevant that a majority of the twitter posts? But readers don’t give TEchcrunch too much flack for it.
Anyone know why?
Because these are pretty cool new features. Twitter posts on the other hand are usually about the same shit we’ve heard a thousand times before, plus they usually drag on for 10 pages whereas this is short and to the point.
Or, come out from your basement, get on your bike, and go to the stadium to watch the game in person…
…like a real, live, human being.
Oh snap! I’m going to Fenway Park!
Hasn’t this been available in Live Earth?
yeh, ive been doing this literally for years with Live Earth. Techcrunch is really riding the Google ‘wave’ hard today…
How awesome is that?! The best stadium and city pictured on a great (est?) blog ever. =)
St. Louis the best city? Hardly.
This is really great. I personally live in Greece and the 3D tour in NY impressed me already very much. I wish we will have some places in Greece with the 3D option in Google Earth.
Leena, the sample image should be of Fenway park.
Wrigley Field.
Fenway is a dump filled with smelly Irish riff-raff.
That’s a cool idea especially something for me. I live in the DC area now and would love to see a better view of Citi Field back in NY where my Mets play instead of just seeing it on TV. This could be something I could use to get a better feel for the stadium.
Pretty cool baseball stadium tours they’ve got!
Wow, its amazing. Now a days many travellers visit stadium also.we have more than 10, 000 stadiums in over 223 countries.Wembley’s 90,000 capacity makes it the second largest stadium in Europe after Camp Nou. Estadio Azteca is the fifth largest stadium in the world. Camp Nou is the largest stadium in Europe and the eleventh largest in the entire world. Millenium Stadiumis the national stadium of Welsh, capacity of 74,500. It is widely known as La Bombonera (the Chocolate Box) due to its shape. Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a largest stadium in South America. For more details refer http://www.jour.../arena-stadium/