Nano Banana in Google Earth Can Add Wild Details to Any Spot You Pick
Google is integrating its Nano Banana 2 image model into Google Earth, which the company is pitching as a way to visualize a location’s past or future using natural language prompts. However, you can ask it to do whatever weird scenario you come up with, too.To get started, enter a location on the Google Earth website, zoom in, and tap the new “create image” button. A prompt box will appear below the satellite image, where you can describe the image you’d like to see.For students and teachers, the feature can help generate renders for historic cities and places.
- ▪Google is integrating its Nano Banana 2 image model into Google Earth, which the company is pitching as a way to visualize a location’s past or future using natural language prompts.
- ▪However, you can ask it to do whatever weird scenario you come up with, too.To get started, enter a location on the Google Earth website, zoom in, and tap the new “create image” button.
- ▪A prompt box will appear below the satellite image, where you can describe the image you’d like to see.For students and teachers, the feature can help generate renders for historic cities and places.
6 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Google Rolls Out Nano Banana AI in Earth — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
- ▪ Google has added Nano Banana to Google Earth for some reason — Mashable
- ▪ Nano Banana image generation comes to Google Earth — Engadget
- ▪ Google Earth added Nano Banana, and I immediately reimagined Philly with zombies and evil clowns — ZDNet
- ▪ Nano Banana 2 Is Coming to Google Earth — Lifehacker
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Google is integrating its Nano Banana 2 image model into Google Earth, which the company is pitching as a way to visualize a location’s past or future using natural language prompts. However, you can ask it to do whatever weird scenario you come up with, too.To get started, enter a location on the Google Earth website, zoom in, and tap the new “create image” button. A prompt box will appear below the satellite image, where you can describe the image you’d like to see.For students and teachers, the feature can help generate renders for historic cities and places. For example, Google says, you could search for the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, and ask Nano Banana to render a hyper-realistic view of what the city looked like in 78 A.D.
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