The update has been made available for the Chrome web browser and Android versions of the app, and also includes improved and more detailed satellite imagery. “It’s everything you love about Google Earth, plus new ways for you to explore, learn and share”.
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One of the major features that debuted on the platform is Google Earth Voyager.
The new Voyager feature upgrades the digital planetary exploration experience by offering curated adventures that revolve around certain themes. According to Google, you’ll be able to view every angle and surrounding as if you were there.
With a much better interface than its predecessor Google Earth is so much more fun to use now. However, you need to get the application if you also want to explore other heavenly bodies, like Mars and Moon, apart from the Earth. “You use Google Earth to get lost”.
Sitting alongside Natural Treasures in Voyager are five video collections from the BBC’s Bafta-nominated app The Story of Life featuring Sir David Attenborough’s clips. There’s 50 of them right now with more likely to follow. The tour discusses the chimpanzees and talks about conservation efforts. With this, you can see your entire travel history in a nice timeline view.
The highlight feature of the revamped Google Earth is Voyage, which provides you access to a series of interactive guided tours across different habitats.
The new Google Earth also comes with an “I’m feeling lucky” feature that allows you to click on a dice-shaped button to take you somewhere unexpected.
Though Google is trying to offer something new in this update, we can admit the fact that it has to face the tough competition from Apple Maps.
Also new to Google Earth is some serious 3D and VR enhancements. Voyager will be available soon for other computer browsers. Out now for desktop and Android, it no longer requires a separate download – it’s available directly in Chrome.
Google Earth is a virtual globe, mapped and equipped with geographical information, which was originally developed by Keyhole, Inc., a CIA-funded company that Google acquired in 2004.
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It’s called Timeline, and Google first rolled it out during the summer of 2015.
