WebGL isn't just for bouncy-marble demos anymore. Google Maps, a major site, now uses the 3D graphics technology after years of development. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Search engine giant Google has announced an update to existing Google Maps with Gogole MapsGL. With the new update, Google maps users can experience and interact with a 3D mirror of ...

Have you see the view of Google Maps with the buildings that pop out at your face as you're driving through the city with your mouse clicker? It's time to take a look. Google this week has enabled ...

Google today announced another big update to the new version of Google Maps, improving the service via features like Earth Tours, step-by-step previews, and traffic incident reports from Waze. If ...

Google Maps for Android has offered a vector 3D option for some time, presenting a fully adjustable, 360 degree view of the world. Now Google has announced that it’s bringing this to the browser, too ...

Google may have a little fun with search occasionally, and now the company has created a dedicated game based around Google Maps. It's called Cube, and is essentially a browser-based version of ...

This week Google has unveiled their new experimental Google Maps service, which has now been rebuilt using WebGL. This updated version is available for the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox, as ...

We’ve seen games based on the playground that is Google Maps, but now there’s an official one. It’s called Cube, and in Google fashion, it of course runs in your web browser. We’ve seen games based on ...

Google has launched the WebGL Globe, a new visual display for data around the world. The visualization was developed and designed by the Google Data Arts Team. Google is currently showing off two ...

Google has just introduced a test mode on Google Maps that enables WebGL to help draw the maps, and the results have moved it a step closer to Google Earth. If you’re using a WebGL-enabled browser, ...

Earlier this year we showed you the new Ovi Maps 3D, a rather nice 3D globe. It certainly wasn’t close to Google Earth in terms of features or depth, but it had some pretty cool 3D features in a few ...