{"id":134540,"date":"2022-01-22T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/wooorld-is-a-multiplayer-version-of-google-earth-vr-for-quest-releasing-soon"},"modified":"2022-01-22T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T03:22:20","slug":"wooorld-is-a-multiplayer-version-of-google-earth-vr-for-quest-releasing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/wooorld-is-a-multiplayer-version-of-google-earth-vr-for-quest-releasing-soon","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wooorld\u2019 is a Multiplayer Version of \u2018Google Earth VR\u2019 for Quest, Releasing Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a799iAChorI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Google Earth VR<\/em> is a fun and useful way of seeing the world\u2014it\u2019s easy to lose yourself visiting your hometown, or mapping out new adventures thanks to the company\u2019s extensive 3D building scans. Unfortunately <em>Google Earth VR<\/em> is a PC VR only app, meaning it doesn\u2019t work natively on Quest. That\u2019s not set to change anytime soon, although a third-party Quest app is looking to offer up much of the magic of <em>Earth VR <\/em>while also making it a multiplayer experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wooorld<\/em> (that\u2019s three \u2018o\u2019s) isn\u2019t being developed by Google, however it appears to be making good use of Google Maps APIs, giving it access to all the 2D and 3D data you\u2019d find on <em>Google Earth VR.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest differences is that <em>Wooorld<\/em> offers up a more limited rendering of <em>Earth <\/em>3D data, which was undoubtedly done to lighten the load on Quest\u2019s more modest mobile chipset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Earth VR is a fun and useful way of seeing the world\u2014it\u2019s easy to lose yourself visiting your hometown, or mapping out new adventures thanks to the company\u2019s extensive 3D building scans. Unfortunately Google Earth VR is a PC VR only app, meaning it doesn\u2019t work natively on Quest. That\u2019s not set to change [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}