In celebration of Earth day on 22 April, Google Earth has teamed up with Leap Motion, a motion-control software and hardware company, to release the Google Earth 7.1 update for both the free and professional desktop versions.
With the update’s support for the Leap Motion 3-D motion controller, users can take a virtual tour of our planet and navigate around the globe with various hand gestures including zooming and spinning.
However, only people who are members of Leap Motion‘s developer program will be able to use motion control to tour the world.
For everyone else in the U.S, the device will only be available next month with a price tag of about $80.
Watch the demo below to see how it will work:
Source: Digital Trends
