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Nov 16, 2016  I launch Google Earth VR and I can hear the sounds, I can even hear the sounds from my button presses on my Vive controllers, but I see nothing. Its similar to just a blank screen. Does anyone else have this issue? Crashlands steam system. I really want to try Google Earth VR.

No buying/selling: Use.Wiki Pages.Oculus Official Links.Community Links. Event Calendar:.Filter by Flair. I bought a Rift because of my interest in cockpit based sims. But all I really want to do now is explore this amazing planet.

I can only imagine what the future holds. This has such amazing potential.It's also made me cry. Streetview has a record of my mother's home from about five years ago. She's outside, busy in the garden as usual, looking towards the strange vehicle in the street. In 2D it's just a blurry photo. In VR I feel I could walk up the path and hug the woman I used to call Mum.Now I call her Margaret, because dementia means she no longer knows me or her garden very well. But VR has allowed me to travel back to a time when she was still someone I could turn to for advice, not a stranger I care for. The smashing pumpkins.

It has been a disturbing, but deeply touching experience.I'd probably better not revisit this spot in VR. One day they'll update the data and my Mum will be gone for good.

Geez man I wasn't expecting to feel like crying when I got on Reddit today, but I am sorry about your situation. It's a wonderful experience getting to relive old memories with Google Earth in general, but the immersiveness of VR just absorbs you back as if you were there. I wish I could experience that with my hometown, but unfortunately it's still too underdeveloped to have anything like street view.

Perhaps I'd regret it, since I've never gone back since I left. But it would be an experience for sure. Google Earth does not show or tell where they shot 3D imagery.

I have no idea why but it may be a privacy issue they are afraid of. And the world is a huge place. So the owner (now not active anymore) of that blog created a map of those locations.

He obviously had an insider at Google to help him because they are very accurate. There are at least 1500 areas covered or not. That is how you easily find them without having to zoom in to every place in order to find out if they are covered. This has nothing to do with Google Earth VR except it will tell you the 3D areas shot. I have found less than half a dozen places that are not on that map overlay. Also, all street view shot points show up as blue dots on Google Maps. And they increase in number the further you zoom in.