Now, unless 2020 gets real weird, chances are humanity won’t be making any near-lightspeed journeys anytime soon. But Google Maps can now help us realize that experience in a small way, via a novel hyperspace effect that’s been added to the navigation tool’s solar system exploration feature. It doesn’t add much more than that, but it’s a fun excuse to play around with the solar system view if you haven’t before.
There is also a great "streetview’ inside the International Space Station where you can move and look around. I’ve tested this on Vivaldi browser so it should work fine on other Chromium based browsers too.
See how to access it at https://lifehacker.com/how-to-explore-the-solar-system-in-google-maps-via-hype-1840777348
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#^How to Explore the Solar System in Google Maps via Hyperspace
Say what you will about the last six-ish Star Wars movies or so, but there’s no denying that zooming through hyperspace to reach distant planets is one of the coolest visuals in the entire series. Now, unless 2020 gets real weird, chances are humanity won’t be making any near-lightspeed journeys anytime soon. But Google Maps can now help us realize that experience in a small way, via a novel hyperspace effect that’s been added to the navigation tool’s solar system exploration feature. It doesn’t add much more than that, but it’s a fun excuse to play around with the solar system view if you haven’t before.