Bringing Google earth to virtual reality
Dominik P. Käser, Evan Parker, Matthias Bühlmann · 2016
Since its inception, Google Earth has been brought to a variety of platforms: from desktop to mobile devices, from native to web. This talk discusses bringing Google Earth to virtual reality, a platform that poses unique challenges in user interaction and rendering. We present solutions to help users navigate planet-sized worlds in VR without losing context or becoming nauseous, and talk about techniques used to render such large worlds at the steady high frame rates that are required for VR.