Google 3D Tiles

Google Earth is a geospatial visualization application developed by Google that provides an interactive 3D globe with satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, Street View, and historical imagery. It is available as a web application, a desktop client (Google Earth Pro), and mobile apps.

Marble is World Labs' product for generating spatially consistent, high-fidelity, persistent 3D worlds from text, images, videos, 360-degree panoramas, or 3D layouts. It uses Gaussian splats to represent generated scenes and supports interactive editing, expansion, and combination of worlds. Users can move through and inhabit the resulting environments, then download or export them in 2D and 3D formats for use in other workflows and pipelines.

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google (Alphabet) that provides satellite imagery, street maps, route planning for driving, walking, biking and public transit, real-time traffic information, business listings and Street View. It is available on web and mobile platforms and offers developer APIs for location-based services.

The Google Maps API (part of Google Maps Platform) is a suite of web services and client libraries provided by Google for embedding maps, geocoding, routing, places data, and other location-based services into web and mobile applications.

Cinematic Zoom is a browser-based three.js application that flies a camera from orbit to selected locations on Earth and records the movement as an MP4. Users choose a landmark or enter a name, coordinates, DMS coordinates, or a map link, then select a shot preset—Dive, Descent, Orbit, Flyby, or Hyperzoom—a lighting setup, and a duration. The camera's distance, bearing, pitch, lens, and roll each follow separate curves rather than a single interpolation, while the app positions the sun for the selected location and renders Google's photorealistic 3D tiles. The project is built on the three.js 3d-tiles-renderer, with tiles streamed through Cesium Ion and atmosphere and clouds supplied by @takram/three-geospatial. It requires Node 22.12 or newer for local development and a browser with WebGL 2; recording additionally requires WebCodecs with a hardware video encoder. A Cesium Ion token or a Google Maps Platform key with the Map Tiles API enabled is required, and the app stores the token in the browser.