Community Reviewed:
"Easily the best travel / exploration app made for VR"
"Far better than ANYTHING else out there,
INSANE graphics, and PERFECT performance"
"Cheapest in the category ..."
Features ?
After implementing all user suggestions, and updated at least twice a week for multiple months in a row, EarthQuest's Top Features are:
0. 3D Coverage Everywhere !!
Almost every identifiable city on earth is in insane quality 3D, even my tiny home town in a poor side of Romania is covered, so you are most likely able to visit your own street in High Quality 3D.
1. AI Integration: The AI companion can:
See, hear, and communicate in any language
Visualize your surroundings and give facts or information about it
Suggest locations and teleport you anywhere on Earth
Remember past conversations
Help with the user interface
2. Realistic Sky and Lighting Mode:
Realistic real-time lighting with day/night cycle and low-volume adaptive ambient sounds with no performance impact.
3. Street View:
With every street image on earth and every panorama taken by other people, you can view locations closer and identify known or new places with loading speeds under 1 second in 8k.
4. Google Maps directly on the Hand Menu:
Intelligent zoom based on altitude paired with manual zoom
Switchable Google Maps Interface
Implemented with the real time compass feature, your body orientation can be visualized on the map.
5. Play Modes:
Singleplayer with enhanced performance.
Multiplayer with Friends and Unique Avatars.
6. Consistent Hand Tracking:
Hand Tracking Rotation: Move your hands as fists similar to steering a car wheel.
Fly like Superman by pointing your index finger in the direction of flight.
Unrestricted menu interaction (Street View Mode has a dedicated button instead of a controller portal)
7. Customisable Flight Controls:
Button Remapping
Flight Controls range from Simple and Intuitive up to Complex Cinematic Flying in all 3 Dimensions
Comfort options like Snap Turning Rotation for Fully Eliminating Motion Sickness
8. Terrain Quality:
EarthQuest's 3D Map Quality can be customized to achieve absolute realistic 3D content by pushing the Terrain Memory to its limits based on your Headset’s power.
9. Realistic Graphics and Best Possible Performance:
2x Display Resolution
Realistic Graphics and Real-Life-Inspired Lighting
Best Performance in the VR Travel Category (Similar to or better than PCVR Performance)
90 HZ Display Refresh Rate
10. User Interface Design:
Simple design for intuitive use.
Single & Multiplayer Menus offer all possible settings, ranging from comfort, graphics, music, and exploration customization options, all the way to entering Mixed Reality as a Giant Flying Human.
And 100s of other useful features made to enhance the experience in every possible scenario.
How is it better than the PCVR title ?
After being in constant development for around an year and publishing weekly updates (or most of the time daily) for more than 7 months now,
We, the community, did not think there was a better travelling experience for VR than the official Google Earth VR for VR-Compatible PC devices.
So, it’s obvious that we compared EarthQuest to it.
Now you might not take my word for it, and can’t take the buyer’s word for it without joining the community and seeing it for yourself either.
So you might be asking, how exactly is EarthQuest better than the official title that’s been “the best” for years?
As previously answered on social media:
Well, the simplest explanation is, think of it as the same exact app (with the same exact functionality and quality), but also having:
The app running fully standalone
Hand Tracking with no restrictions
Multiplayer with friends
a Vision Capable ChatGPT Powered Travel Assistant
Actual 8k UNCOMPRESSED Street View
Google Maps Integration directly on the menu with adjustment features and infinite free usage ( like everything else )
Realistic Sky Lighting and customizable Day / Night cycles
Customization features like smooth rotation or snap turn for comfort,
flight experience settings, or remapping your flight inputs to: simple intuitive flight, left handed supported flight or cinematic flight controls
Be any size you want (human sized or mountain sized), and everything in between
Having full control over terrain quality and terrain memory management for insane terrain quality and faster terrain loading
Teleporting anywhere using the ChatGPT Powered Travel Assistant, or by writing where
Way more and better soundtracks with low-volume adaptive ambient sounds
Mixed Reality (if preferred)
+ 100s more
If you still have doubts about this community statement, you should try and give me and others your honest opinion in:
Join the passionate developer in the kind community:
Do i need to complete any sort of setup before playing?
Absolutely NOT !
This confusion started from the first versions, EarthQuest no longer forces anyone to do complete any process before playing.
And it has been like this for months now !