Google Maps wants to offer a more visual and intuitive experience. And Street View view is best for this. Now the company is announcing different innovations, one of them the arrival of the new 3D immersive lookAdaptation of Street View to work inside main buildings.

These are new features coming to Google Maps soon, and that’s how immersive view works, an experience that will only be available in a few major cities for now, but which we hope will increase its usability over time.

Wandering through corridors as if they were streets

The immersive view will allow you to enter the main places and see how they are inside. Its work will be equivalent to the current Google Street View, but we can do it from corridors instead of walking around the streets.

Google has already had indoor maps for a while and can distinguish between different floors. The novelty now comes in the image. We will not only be able to move between planes, but we will also be able to see how these corridors are..

Over the next few months, this immersive display will be available in major cities. Starting with Los Angeles, New York, London, San Francisco and Tokyo.

In addition to this indoor Street View, Google Maps Enhances 3D views of monuments with new aerial views. Photorealistic 3D models that provide a much more visual touch than current aerial views. These modernized views are available today in cities around the world and at more than 250 monuments.

Another innovation of Live View is starting with Paris, New York, London, San Francisco and Tokyo, we can search places directly from 3D view. If we wanted to search for information right now we had to go back to the map view, in a few months it will be possible to do this directly. This allows you to search for gas stations, restaurants or shops directly from Street View by getting directions. A step closer to augmented reality.

Google explains that Maps receives more than 50 million updates every day. This constant knowledge is what will ensure the innovation of “Neighborhood”. Google Maps will benefit from its algorithms and community input. Recommend nearby events and places. Anything popular in that neighborhood will be highlighted, accelerating the discovery of the places with the most activity.

Finally, sustainable routes that have been available for a while will also be available to developers. This also allows third-party apps to suggest more fuel-efficient routes.