Community Reviewed:Â
"Easily the best travel app made for VR"
"Far better than the official Google Earth VR on PC in every way,Â
including much better graphics and lighting"
"Best and cheapest in the category at just 4.99..."
Features ?
After implementing all user suggestions, and updated at least twice a week for multiple months in a row, EarthQuest's Top Features are:
0. 3D Coverage Everywhere !!
Almost every identifiable city on earth is in insane quality 3D, even my tiny home town in a poor side of Romania is covered, so you are most likely able to visit your own street in High Quality 3D.
1. AI Integration: The new AI companion can:
See, hear, and communicate in any language
Visualise your surroundings and give facts or information about it
Suggest locations and teleport you anywhere on Earth
Remember past conversations
Help with user interface
2. Realistic Sky and Lighting Mode:
Realistic real-time lighting with day/night cycle and adaptive ambient sounds (birds chirping in the morning, crickets at night) with no performance impact.
3. Street View:
With every street image on earth and every panorama taken by other people, you can view locations closer and identify known or new places with very quick loading speeds in HD.
4. Google Maps directly on the Hand Menu:
Intelligent zoom based on altitude paired with manual zoom
No user setup required, the 2d maps come with free unlimited usage.
Highly detailed & Large Field of View maps of the entire earth, covering every street and point of interest.
Implemented with the real time compass feature, your body orientation can be visualized on the map.
5. Play Modes:
Singleplayer with enhanced performance.Â
Multiplayer with Friends and Unique Avatars.
6. Consistent Hand Tracking:
Hand Tracking Rotation: Move your hands as fists similar to steering a car wheel.
Fly like Superman by pointing your index finger in the direction of flight.
Unrestricted menu interaction (Street View Mode has a dedicated button instead of a controller portal)
7. Customisable Flight Controls:
Button Remapping
Flight Controls range from Simple and Intuitive up to Complex Cinematic Flying in all 3 Dimensions
Comfort options like Snap Turning Rotation for Fully Eliminating Motion Sickness
8. Terrain Quality:
Similar to Google Earth on the PC or Web by default, EarthQuest can achieve absolute photorealistic terrain by pushing the Terrain Memory to its limits based on your Headset’s power.
9. Realistic Graphics and Best Possible Performance:
2x Resolution
Powerful Graphics and Realistic Lighting
Best Performance in the VR Travel Category (Similar to or better than PCVR Performance)
10. User Interface Design:
Simple design for intuitive use.
Single & Multiplayer Menus offer all possible settings, ranging from comfort, graphics, music, and exploration customisation options, all the way to entering Mixed Reality as a Giant Flying Human.
And 10s of other useful features made to enhance the experience in any possible scenario.
How is it better than the official Google Earth VR ?
After being in constant development for around an year and publishing weekly updates (or sometimes daily) for more than 4 months now,
We, the community, did not think there was a better travelling experience for VR than the official Google Earth VR for VR-Compatible PC devices.
So, it’s obvious that we compared EarthQuest to it.
Now you might not take my word for it, and can’t take the buyer’s word for it without joining the community and seeing it for yourself either.
So you might be asking, how exactly is EarthQuest better than the official title that’s been “the best” for years?
As previously answered on social media:
Well, the simplest explanation is, think of it as the same exact app (with the same exact functionality and quality), but also having:
The app running fully standalone
Hand Tracking with no restrictions
Multiplayer with friends
 a Vision Capable ChatGPT Powered Travel Assistant
Google Maps Integration directly on the menu with adjustment features and infinite free usage ( like everything else )
Real Time Sky Lighting with day and night cycle
Customization features like smooth rotation or snap turn for comfort,Â
flight experience settings, or remapping your flight inputs to: simple intuitive flight, left handed supported flight or cinematic flight controls
Be any size you want (human sized or mountain sized), and everything in between
Having full control over terrain quality and terrain memory management for insane terrain quality and faster terrain loading
Teleporting anywhere using the ChatGPT Powered Travel Assistant, or by writing where
Way more and better soundtracks with ambient sounds
Mixed Reality (if preferred)Â
like 10s more
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