Google Earth 5.0 lets you dive into the ocean

[Airbot]

Google has just released a new version of Google Earth that will let users virtually dive beneath the water surface and explore the depths of the world’s oceans. The new feature, rolled out at a news conference today, includes 20 content layers with relevant information from the world's leading scientists, researchers, and ocean explorers.

more: Google Earth 5.0 lets you dive into the ocean - TechSpot News

 

[Barman58]

Thanks Aaron,

I'd been wondering when it was going to be released

 

[Airbot]

Took a very long time.

 

[Barman58]

Yes I think the last release was last summer - July/August.

have just downloaded it so will have a look see if it's worth the wait

 

[sevsman]

The only problem with this software is that alot, if not all, of the images where taken in 07 which isn't very good if your seeing things that have been changed for a long time. Well except Edinburgh that is. Because i think that it's there that you can get live traffic cams etc...

 

[swarfega]

yeah i hope they update UK this year.

 

[wosully]

Hey all,

I cannot even get Google Earth to run with images. I open it, and it looks like the screen resolution or color change, and I cannot view any images in Earth 5. I tried running it in compatibility mode and changing the resolution, to no avail, on my Dell Precision M 65 laptop. NVIDIA Quadro FX 350 M, is the pre release driver from WDDM.

 

[Joan Archer]

I expect this would need a pretty good graphics card to get the full benefit so I don't know what the chances of onboard graphics being able to go there