high2earth
Travel & Explorationhigh2earth allows you to travel virtually to many locations around the world: Rome, Seattle, Munich, Mount Everest, New Your and many other exciting places.
You can enter your own locations or use a small pre-selection available in the main menu of this app.
Apart from that, you can also check the current weather in the places you visit virtually.
Over 400 cities can be displayed in 3D. Natural wonders like the Grand Canyon, the Dolomites or other mountain landscapes are all in 3D without exception.
| comfort | ⦾ Moderate |
| age rating | 0+ Everyone |
| website | highlewelt.com |
| developer | highlewelt |
| publisher | highlewelt GmbH |
| connection | Internet required |
| app version | 6 |
| languages | English |
Reviews 9
Aweful
It is not as describes and hard to use. I want a refund but I don’t know how!! Wtduh
go on .....
scaling must be possible via the controller ..... and free movement. then it works....
Don't pay for that
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I tested for you...
and you can move on!
- the presentation images of a city in relief are misleading: they are only valid on pre-selected locations (9 ?). Elsewhere you have totally flat cities, difficult to read and barely recognizable
- navigation: just disastrous.
Basically you can just scroll inside the map rectangle, and teleport (but not at all on a point of the map: no, outside! interest close to zero, especially given the following point)
- and in fact you must not move from your place, because that's where there is a slider to zoom in / out: there's no control on the joysticks for that!
In practice, you want to see your city? you type his name in the search, you are taken there, but it's difficult to recognize anything and navigation hassle, limits motion sickness
Personally, I didn't recognize my city or my neighborhood, and I gave up
As for Paris, it is not even in relief so nothing to see and not much to recognize either (on the other hand the mont st michel exists, even if little to see)
Brief:
1/ I don't understand why it's on sale, even on the applab, because the experience (navigation) is really horrible and the content (9 sites with nothing to do in it but take a look) more than limited.
This content, moreover, is really not worth the price: you go around it in 5 minutes, not to mention the nervousness caused to just move around and try to recognize
2/ to my knowledge, it's an abandoned project, which has never had an update since its release. So something not finished but immediately abandoned: I don't understand how you can sell such a thing, complete jerkiness
You have been warned
Much better maps than wooorld
Depsite some small flaws in interface the overall experience is simply breathtaking. It's like a having a diorama of a world on the table next to you.
Has potential
As a bit fan of Google Earth VR (PC only) I have been looking forward to someone trying to achieve the same experience natively on Quest. This app gets some of the way there, but has some way to go.
Pro:
- You can travel to any place on the globe
Cons:
- UI is totally clunky and only barely usable
- Controls are also barely usable
- Only top-down view
- Only few places has stereoscopic models of buildings etc., but that is likely due to limitations of (I'm guessing) Bing maps?
- Lacks ambiant music of Google Earth VR.
- No multiplayer
- Boring environment surrounding the map area
- Lack of a settings menu
- Lack of features in general
It doesn't seems like the app has seen any updates for many months.
In its current state, this app isn't worth the money in my opinion.
Great potential.
The overall conceit of this app is great: you look down on very detailed cityscapes and landscapes.
The UI needs a lot of work. It is not intuitive and buggy. Trying to get around can be frustrating and really lessen the experience.
Once the UI issues are resolved though, this will be a must-have for education.