Integration of billions of street views and aerial images, Google Maps online immersive view experience

CTOnews.com, March 25-Apple Maps (Apple Maps) has expanded its Detailed City Experience to cover Boston, Massachusetts. The service makes fine modeling of trees, sidewalks, etc., and 3D restores the real scene.

Google Maps (Google Maps) goes a step further and recently launched a new immersive view feature for users to bring a more shocking and superior visual experience.

Google announced the immersive view feature last year, using artificial intelligence to combine billions of Street View and aerial images to create a digital model of the real world.

Google officially announced the launch of the immersive view feature in its tweet, which CTOnews.com translated as follows:

Let's solemnly introduce the next immersive view, which is a whole new way to explore Google Maps.

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, we can fuse billions of street views and aerial images together to allow you to visit your destination before you travel.

Currently, immersive view functions are limited to London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. However, Google plans to extend it to more cities "in the coming months", including Amsterdam, Dublin and Venice.