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Google Maps Street View has been an attractive waste of time for many years, although it has never been perfect. But, thanks to a new feature, it could get better at capturing dark roads and paths in the future.
In a blog post on Thursday, Google revealed a new beta feature that will allow users to submit their own photos, directly from their phones, of places that are not adequately represented by Street View. With the Street View app, you simply snap a series of photos as you go down the path you’re trying to capture, and Google’s ARCore technology will supposedly tie them together to function as a Street View experience.
Of course, there are some caveats. First of all, iPhone owners are out of luck right now. You will need an Android phone that is compatible with ARCore; thankfully, that applies to just about any mainstream Android phone in recent years. We reached out to Google to find out if there are any plans to let iOS users have fun and will update this article as soon as we hear from it.
Beyond that, this beta feature is only available in a handful of places right now. Users in Toronto, Austin, New York, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and Nigeria have access to it through the Street View app. Be patient: Google said more regions would be coming in the near future.
As long as Google has had Street View vans roaming the world, there are still plenty of places that cannot be visited virtually using the service. I discovered this during some recent VR tours through Google Maps data. We hope that the collective collaboration of new Street View photos will make it a more complete experience in the future.
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