Flashy new Google Maps Immersive View shows these five cities like you’ve never seen them before
Back in May, Google announced a slick new feature for Google Maps calledImmersive View. It lets you virtually explore a city from a birds-eye, similar to Apple Maps’Flyover. At itsSearch AI eventin Paris today, Google announced thatImmersive View is going livestarting today in a handful of cities around the world.
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You’ll be able to check out Immersive Views of London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo in Google Maps starting today, and Google says Immersive View is coming to Amsterdam, Dublin, Florence, and Venice “in the coming months.”
Google also gave a couple of updates about Maps' Live View augmented reality feature. In the next few months, Maps users in Barcelona, Dublin, and Madrid will be able to use Live View to see information about nearby businesses with a feature called Search in Live View. Search in Live View came to London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo late last year.
Indoor Street View is also expanding in a big way. Google says it’s bringing indoor Live View guidance to “more than 1,000 new airports, train stations, and malls in Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Paris, Prague, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, and Taipei” in the next few months.
Finally, Google announced a Maps feature it’s calling “glanceable directions” that lets you see a simplified version of your trip information from Google Maps' route overview screen (the one you see when you enter a destination and tapDirections) or your phone’s lock screen. These glanceable directions show your route progress, your estimated ETA in real time, and where you need to turn next. It’s also rolling out — you guessed it — “in the coming months.”
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