Third-party developers can now tap into the Live View AR feature of Maps, which essentially gives them super precise location tracking in the real world and an AR layer on top.
Image: GoogleĪs it pushes on making Maps a more live, 3D experience, it’s also opening some of that experience up to the app ecosystem. Immersive View works on most phones but only covers a few cities. Immersive View works on most devices, Reid said, but so far only works in a few neighborhoods in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo. Now the technology has come a long way into making it feel pretty natural.” “It’s a thing where we had demos years ago, and it was like, ‘oh, here’s the thing,’ but it didn’t really work. And she said Google’s been working on it for a while. Reid described the feature as offering the magic of Google Earth’s massive zoom but on a neighborhood level. How do we combine that with Street View? How do we combine it with aerial view to make something that feels much more like you were there?” “We’re able to fuse those together,” says Liz Reid, a VP of engineering at Google, “so that we can actually understand, okay, these are the heights of the buildings. As you move through them, it looks like playing a video game on medium graphics set in a precisely scaled real world. The images behind Immersive View are all computer-generated, a combination of Google’s satellite captures and its Street View shots.
Maps overlays its live busyness and traffic info, so you get a quasi-augmented reality look at whatever park or street corner or beach spot you’re looking at. The new Immersive View is sort of a Street View in the sky: you can look over a location from above to get a sense of the neighborhood and then drop to street level to see the specific spots you might want to hit up. Google launched a new mode for Maps on Wednesday, designed to give users a more real-life look at the places they’re going before they even go.
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