![]() How do we combine that with Street View? How do we combine it with an aerial view to make something that feels much more like you were there?," said Liz Reid, a VP of engineering at Google. "We're able to fuse those together, so that we can actually understand, okay, these are the heights of the buildings. Google is able to fuse this data and set it in a precisely scaled world. The interesting bit is that the images behind "Immersive View" are all computer-generated and derived from a combination of Google Satellite captures and street view shots that have been taken manually by its cars. This enables one to look at a park or street corner or beach that you're looking at. ![]() The Maps overlays with live busyness and traffic information which is kind of a take on augmented reality. This will give you more real-time context and allow you to drop to the street level to see specific spots. Fundamentally, Google is merging Street View technology with satellites which makes it a street view in the sky allowing you to look over a location from above. At Google's annual developer conference Google IO 2022, which was held fully in person for the first time in two years in San Francisco, the search engine giant announced a new update for its mapping service Google Maps which is called Immersive View. ![]()
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