turns out having "use vbos" enabled in the video settings causes some gorgeous graphical glitches to appear. reminds me a lot of how google earth looks when you get down to street level.

RE google earth street level appearance, this is what i mean. trees are turned into meaningless geometry. all the buildings are off model, the cars are melted lumps in the road. its so beautifully broken

ill be super honest friends playing with google earths street view was simultaneously the weirdest and coolest experience for me

i was looking at areas im extremely familiar with because i visit them on a near weekly basis and yet it all looks so very different, despite the vague shape and appearance of everything being roughly the same

@puppy isn't it on psvr now too

@Violet not afaik. its def. on vive tho

@Violet its tiltbrush that psvr is getting iirc?

@Violet never mind no its not, thats coolpaintr

@Violet ok apparently a potential reason for earth vr not being on psvr is because psvr only allows for a small amount of space to be cached (1gb) for apps, and g earth needs way more than that ? or something

here have screenshot

@puppy they can very easily get around that if they stream the data

@Violet probably not the best solution to take

@puppy Google Earth is also on cardboard/daydream if I recall

@Violet nope. only oculus and vive

@puppy I remember using it with cardboard years ago

@Violet that was a version of street view that was just looking around 360 photos, not flying about a fully rendered 3d environment

@puppy it was Google Earth, it's baked into the cardboard app

@puppy there's a video of some person using it here https://youtu.be/EOwwgR6zQy0

@Violet hmmm. i cant imagine it being very good