Virtual navigation

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Virtual navigation more rarely virtual exploration is a new mode of navigation allowing 360° panoramas of the territories, buildings or seaways virtually on internet or intranet networks. The current technique is to move a vehicle (car, bike, boat, drones, aircraft) or a pedestrian to record shots, then combine these photos into a 360° sphere, to form an immersion vision, giving the user a sense of being in this space.

In 2009, Global Vision launched an immersive video-type high definition virtual air navigation service that could be combined with the Oculus Rift. Mainly Swiss, this system is now developing worldwide, taking a new step in the immersion of virtual navigation and more globally in the world of virtual reality.

History
This has been done, but it was first realized only in 1978 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first tests were performed by Peter Clay, in collaboration with Bob Mohl, Michael Naimark and several other students. Aspen was built as Aspen Moviemap. This technology was first connected to a GPS service in 1999, by Position images, with their "fotoroute" service. But it was the Google company that launched this large-scale service in 2008 with its famous Google Street View, started in 2001, with the CityBlock Stanford project, a research project at Stanford University sponsored by Google.

Virtual navigation services by country

Globally

Google Street View
Mapillary
Photosynth

Africa

Morocco
Map.ma

Asia

China
Tencent Maps
City8
Xuefo
IshowChina
Baidu Cards

India
WoNoBo

Iran
NikApps

Japan
Locaview.com (service interrupted)

Kazakhstan
Yandex (Russian company)

South Korea
Daum Maps
Naver Maps

North Korea
DPRK 360 (limited virtual navigation/photospheres)

Thailand
MapJack

Vietnam
Phophuong360 (service interrupted)

Europe

Germany
CycloMedia (more German)

Armenia
360yerevan

Belarus
Interfax

Belgium
CycloMedia

Czech Republic
Mapy.cz

Cyprus
Cyprus Street View

Denmark
Krak and Here.com

France
UrbanDive Service launched by Mappy (PagesYellows Group) offering more efficient virtual browsing than Google Street View according to them.

Greece
Kapou (Spartan virtual navigation)

Hungary
NORC (Romanian company, no activity since )

Italy
Tutto Citta

Iceland
Já 360°

Kosovo
Lokacion (Pristina Virtual Navigation)

Latvia
1188.lv (Riga virtual navigation)

Netherlands
CycloMedia (virtual navigation with precision of )

Norway
CycloMedia (Virtual Navigation of Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim with precision)
Finn (virtual navigation with precision considered one of the best for