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Google earth is a product,also a series of applications.    It functions in different user platforms, including pc, mac, Android and an web app on chrome browser.    However, google is working on the new ios edition. Please stay tuned!  Generally speaking, it is a computer program that renders a simulacrum of images obatained from satellite imagery, aerial photography,and GIS onto a visualized 3D globe, with other layers for users to get information around the world.

Catalog

Google Earth

VR high-tech & UX

General History of Development

BACK

start from here

Extensions in many fields

Refreshed fuctions with UI

FIRST PAGE

the predecessor

John Hanke

Developer

Google acquired Keyhole

SketchUp

Tool bar

Google Earth 3.0

steering wheel

Layer applications

Pegman

Sky Mode

Flight Simulator

Google Earth 4.3

Mars Mode

History layers

Google Earth 5.0

Navigation

Compass

Chinese version

Google Earth 7.0

record journey and share

Tour Guide Mode

2016

Photogrammetry

Designed to avoid diziness

Tunnel Vision

Secenes are moving continuously       with seneries’transition, while         users feel themselves static.

Keep the feeling of rapid movements during transition

cone of vision

Comfortable Interaction

UX in VR

   Scale the view of angle 

Visual hint:

Show density of transport infrastructures and specific means of traffic convinience

look for weather forcast or global climate change

survey the conditions of forests and sea:  information of terrain can be measured for personal use, such as saving sites’data, calculating distance and altitude，which can be landmarked with pins.

NEXT

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Google earth provides astronomy introductions with hubble pictures.

collaborate with UNESCO, to protect natural and cultural heritage.

Chinamap: research into histories, and distributions of energy  education and medical resources EndFragment

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