Adapted for amritsharma.com from the open-source demo by Makio64 · 3d-tiles-renderer by Garrett Johnson · 3D tiles via Cesium Ion
The globe streams from Cesium, and a key is how it knows the requests are yours. It is free and takes about a minute.
On Cesium the key is called an access token — copy the one named Default. If it offers to add “Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles”, say yes.
It is kept in this browser and sent only to the map service.
Made for the three.js conference, to get a few shoots of Earth.
After a flight lands, drag to look around.
Open Place and paste a Google Maps URL from the address bar to fly there. Share / short links won’t work.