Google Earth VR Reviews

Omg what an amazing experience!!! Just sitting on the floor in between the moutains! just looking up just wow! Even london and many many many more.Its more gorgeous than i ever thought, the detail in the 3d models 10/10 i can be on here for hours! Thank you HTC Vive and google for making this an amzing experience

It's amazing and it was really something exciting to see my home city, Montreal, from such unlimited perspectives but I would be even more amazing if "human scale" was fixed, it's really weird (and frustrating) to have those uncontrollable change of scale while going from bottom to build to top or from a building. I wanted to get a view from top of mountains, top of Christ of Rio, Top of Buildings and everytime I got sick while trying to do it. A secondary map window on desktop would be usefull to navigate in the World

One of the best VR experiences right now and something you can easily show your family members, who are not much into gaming. Intuitive controls and a clean UI, but I really wish they would add a search function to check out specific locations. This way it's more of "fly around and explore", but some more comfort features would be pretty nice. I'm also pretty annoyed by the loading time sometimes. It seems like the Google servers have issues when you are mirroring the screen for other people in the room - like a request limit of data to prevent abusing? I don't know what it is, but as soon as I disable the mirroring, I can see my PC downloading the data MUCH faster. However...it's free, it's amazing, you HAVE TO try this.

Optimization is off the Charts! Anybody wanting to make a flight simulator needs to look into how Google Earth VR gets such a high frame rate while you 'fly' over a fully rendered metropolis.

-Can go anywhere in the entire world. -Spends first 10 minutes looking at my own house Worth it

This by far is my favorite VR experience out of all of them. It's not 100% perfect, but it does have a huge sense of realism on going to locations around the world. If you do try this, be sure to change yor setting to human perspective. That way you can stand on a street and see everything in a lifelike situation. For example, go to New York city and look at the skyscrapers. The great thing about this program is it will only continue to get better. Experience this!!!

BEST EDUCATIONAL or "non-game" app ive used with my vive yet! Everything you wished it would be EXCEPT no streetview from the actual cars that drove around HOWEVER im sure that would look all wonky so lets say this is flawlessly cool.

This program inspires me about the future of human technology. My girlfriend left colombia when she was very young and showing her the street level view of her hometown brought her to tears. it was beautiful to show her amzing places in the world we have never been and may some day go together.

What else can be said that hasn't already been said. Sat in my front yard in the house I grew up in. Brought me to tears.

My Mum is in her 81'st year - bear with me - and she has had a go at one or two "experiences" in VR since I got my Vive last year. I thought she would love to try this. Within five minutes she was back at the place she grew up, giggling and squeeling with delight. Then she went up "Tandle Hill" and suddenly I noticed she wasn't laughing anymore. I asked her if she was ok, and I noticed she was quietly crying and shaking. "What's the MATTER"?, I asked. "I haven't been here since I was a little girl; this is so wonderful - thank you so much, I never thought I would ever come here ever again". THAT, my friends, is worth the cost of the Vive itself. Pro's: Become Superman/Supergirl and go where you like; visit your own house; go to that place you always wanted to; sit on cliffs and scare yourself to death; "Leap" from tall buildings; Take off and go into space then land on the other side of the planet; go to that holiday place again (without the traffic jams); play a game of "can I find it again from space without getting lost on the way down"; save your own favourites and jump straight there next time. Change the time of day or night by dragging the Sun across the sky. All for FREE !!!! IN MY OPINION - the best and most enduring VR experience ever, and probably for a long time to come. Cons: Well, not really any, but I would like to see the following features added as this gem is polished: To be able to leave human scale on ALL THE TIME. I know it is great to feel like Gulliver, walking between the mountains or skyscrapers, but for immersion I'd like to be able to leave my eyes 70mm apart and view the Earth in normal scale (at least have the option). Ability to reverse the "BRAKE" option so that you are slow by default and you pull the trigger to accellerate; I, personally, want to take it all in, not rush off. I am not bothered about the comfort mode and prefer not to use it, but for those that get motion sickness, an option to change the size of the "tunnel" view to suit. I for one, don't mind that you can't text-search for places to "teleport" to; searching adds to the enjoyment, but I'll expect a lot of people would prefer the option. I know there's mirror mode, which you can modify to show just left/right eye as a circle on the screen, but for your friends to be able to view the experience full screen. I appreciate this could affect FPS etc, so just the option would be nice. Graphics settings, perhaps. Oh, I don't know, fly to and around the Moon next maybe? ;-D These are not complaints, just hopes for the future. This App is nothing short of incredible!