{"id":24035,"date":"2026-06-21T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:43:57","slug":"google-just-turned-street-view-into-a-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/21\/google-just-turned-street-view-into-a-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Google Just Turned Street View Into a Video Game&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Bilawal puts it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>At Google I\/O 2026, DeepMind shipped Maps Imagery Grounding for Genie 3 &#8212; their real-time world model can now <strong>generate interactive 3D worlds conditioned<\/strong> to any of the 280 billion Street View images Google has captured over 20 years. Pick a location on Google Maps, choose a style, drop in a character, and walk around.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out his accessible &amp; illuminating tour of the new tech:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@bilawalsidhu\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google Just Turned Street View Into a Video Game\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxv4IkobUPI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bilawal puts it, At Google I\/O 2026, DeepMind shipped Maps Imagery Grounding for Genie 3 &#8212; their real-time world model can now generate interactive 3D worlds conditioned to any of the 280 billion Street View images Google has captured over 20 years. Pick a location on Google Maps, choose a style, drop in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24082,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions\/24082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}