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3D cinematic video Delight your users with automatically-generated, 3D video. API stucka Rich, cinematic video Create an impactful, 360-degree, 3D experience.

Pre-rendered assets Easily scale with a simple API.

Reduced time to market Bring innovative features to your customers quickly.

Easily scale with immersive video

Inform your audience Help users make educated, location-based decisions by getting to know an area virtually.

Request more addresses Developers can dynamically access and request video for any US address at scale with the API.

Reduce development time Bring high-resolution, 360-degree video to your customers without major development time and expense.

How you can use it 3D birds-eye view of a skyscraper Educate buyers and renters Creating drone footage for every listing can be costly and time-consuming. With Aerial View, you can access a large range of locations that already exist as pre-rendered video.

Bring hotels and landmarks to life Help travelers gain an understanding of the area around buildings and landmarks before they get to their destination. They can plan visits to different points of interest and navigate more easily.

Provide your fans with rich, immersive experiences Easily implement plug-and-play visualizations that delight fans. Simply deploy 3D visual experiences into your existing applications. Hand holding a phone with a 3D city view Showcase retail locations and surroundings Help your customers find your locations more easily, especially in busy areas, with videos showing the buildings and their surrounding areas. See Aerial View in action Enhancing the rental experience Rent. listings use Aerial View pre-rendered videos to give renters a cinematic view of their potential new home. The video shows both the rental property and the surrounding area. Visit website 3D birds-eye view of a city building Elton John L.A. Takeover For Elton John’s farewell tour, his team partnered with Google Maps Platform to create an immersive digital experience based on a map of Los Angeles. An Aerial View video of Dodger Stadium, which they call “Rocket View,” is a distinctive part of the campaign. Visit website Elton John L.A. logo

Start building with Aerial View API Get started Building a custom 3D visualization? Photorealistic 3D Tiles, textured with Google’s high-resolution imagery, let you create highly customizable visualizations that are unique to your brand and functional design requirements. Learn more

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Clay cityscape Google Maps Platform Get going with Google Maps Platform Get started This launch will be restricted to US Addresses only. Developers will be able to request videos via API call and for any addresses not yet available, try again at a later time. Google may automatically pre-render videos for addresses from time-to-time so some addresses will have no wait time.