Google Earth VR

My Mum is in her 81'st year - bear with me - and she has had a go at one or two "experiences" in VR since I got my Vive last year. I thought she would love to try this. Within five minutes she was back at the place she grew up, giggling and squeeling with delight. Then she went up "Tandle Hill" and suddenly I noticed she wasn't laughing anymore. I asked her if she was ok, and I noticed she was quietly crying and shaking. "What's the MATTER"?, I asked. "I haven't been here since I was a little girl; this is so wonderful - thank you so much, I never thought I would ever come here ever again". THAT, my friends, is worth the cost of the Vive itself. Pro's: Become Superman/Supergirl and go where you like; visit your own house; go to that place you always wanted to; sit on cliffs and scare yourself to death; "Leap" from tall buildings; Take off and go into space then land on the other side of the planet; go to that holiday place again (without the traffic jams); play a game of "can I fi...

-Can go anywhere in the entire world. -Spends first 10 minutes looking at my own house Worth it

What else can be said that hasn't already been said. Sat in my front yard in the house I grew up in. Brought me to tears.

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO ADD OCULUS RIFT COMPATIBILITY GOOGLE? WE HAVE BEEN AND ARE WAITING. UNTIL THEN IT IS THUMBSDOWN FROM ME.

PLEASE add support for oculus rift. this looks really fun..

This program inspires me about the future of human technology. My girlfriend left colombia when she was very young and showing her the street level view of her hometown brought her to tears. it was beautiful to show her amzing places in the world we have never been and may some day go together.

Pro: I felt like Gozilla stomping through downtown Tokyo! :D Con: Reenactment of citywide rampage ended with stubbed toe! Damn you coffee table >:(

Absolutely incredible

Google earth is what pretty is all about. If you like staring at cut flowers in a vase, then you'll love google earth. If you want to take advantage of the mind-blowingly awesome capabilities of earth in VR... Forget it. Google clearly fell in love with the clunky spatial controllers of the Vive and created a dogs-breakfast of a user interface. Clearly google has lost the plot when it comes to usability, so the wonderful aspects of being able to see the earth up close are lost to the unusable controls, which are frustrating and imprecise when it comes to navigating. I get it - really I do. You want a room level experience and you created it. That's nice. So what if I want to sit and just view things from a usable angle? Oh... That's a pain. Adjust steam floor levels within the app? Too hard. Switch on a keyboard and just use mechanical instructions to tell you what I want to do? Verbotten. Google Earth is typical of most VR junk out at the moment. The programmers are so stuck in the...

First app to really justify having this VIVE