Nav Toor(@heynavtoor):Remember the God's Eye from Fast and Furious? The one that could track anyone, anywhere? An ex-Google Maps product manager built the closest thing to it. His name is Bilawal Sidhu. He spent six years at Google as a Senior PM on the team that made Google Maps Immersive View and ARCore Geospatial API. Now he curates technology at TED and scouts for a16z. His audience is 2.1 million people. Two days ago, on August 24, 2026, he uploaded his tool to GitHub. MIT licensed. Free. It is called God's Eye View. It is a photorealistic 3D globe in your browser. Live aircraft. Live ships. Live satellites. Earthquakes. Fires. Public traffic cameras. All the signals the world is already broadcasting, drawn on one map. Then it goes further. Click any plane and lock the camera on it. Press one key and you are riding along in cockpit view, real terrain holding under you as it flies. Cycle sensors mid-flight. CRT. Night vision. Ironbow FLIR thermal. The whole live planet re-renders through a different lens. Turn on the CCTV layer over Austin, London, or California. Public cameras get projected into the 3D city. Around 800 of them. Click a satellite. Ride the ISS around Earth with the orbit ring drawn behind it. Turn on the mic. Say things out loud. "Take me to Tokyo." "How many flights are over Texas right now?" "Which ships are headed to Oakland?" "Draw the walking route from the Capitol to Zilker Park." "Track that plane. Enter cockpit." It answers. It draws on the map. It flies the camera. Thirteen live data layers. Ten of them need zero API keys, zero signup, zero account. Flights, satellites, quakes, cameras, radio, bikeshare, launches, mapped installations. All free. The photorealistic 3D planet uses Google's Map Tiles API. That one is metered. The rest run on free public feeds or free developer keys. This is the same guy whose God's Eye View reconstruction of the Iran strikes hit 4 million views on X earlier this year. He open sourced the tool that made it. 4,633 stars. 1,190 forks. MIT licensed. Two days after going public. Runs in your browser. On your machine. Under your control. (Link in the comments)

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Remember the God's Eye from Fast and Furious? The one that could track anyone, anywhere? An ex-Google Maps product manager built the closest thing to it. His name is Bilawal Sidhu. He spent six years at Google as a Senior PM on the team that made Google Maps Immersive View and ARCore Geospatial API. Now he curates technology at TED and scouts for a16z. His audience is 2.1 million people. Two days ago, on August 24, 2026, he uploaded his tool to GitHub. MIT licensed. Free. It is called God's Eye View. It is a photorealistic 3D globe in your browser. Live aircraft. Live ships. Live satellites. Earthquakes. Fires. Public traffic cameras. All the signals the world is already broadcasting, drawn on one map. Then it goes further. Click any plane and lock the camera on it. Press one key and you are riding along in cockpit view, real terrain holding under you as it flies. Cycle sensors mid-flight. CRT. Night vision. Ironbow FLIR thermal. The whole live planet re-renders through a different lens. Turn on the CCTV layer over Austin, London, or California. Public cameras get projected into the 3D city. Around 800 of them. Click a satellite. Ride the ISS around Earth with the orbit ring drawn behind it. Turn on the mic. Say things out loud. "Take me to Tokyo." "How many flights are over Texas right now?" "Which ships are headed to Oakland?" "Draw the walking route from the Capitol to Zilker Park." "Track that plane. Enter cockpit." It answers. It draws on the map. It flies the camera. Thirteen live data layers. Ten of them need zero API keys, zero signup, zero account. Flights, satellites, quakes, cameras, radio, bikeshare, launches, mapped installations. All free. The photorealistic 3D planet uses Google's Map Tiles API. That one is metered. The rest run on free public feeds or free developer keys. This is the same guy whose God's Eye View reconstruction of the Iran strikes hit 4 million views on X earlier this year. He open sourced the tool that made it. 4,633 stars. 1,190 forks. MIT licensed. Two days after going public. Runs in your browser. On your machine. Under your control. (Link in the comments)