You can download the free Nokia 3D World Gaze at Beta Labs.
A reminder of Nokia 3D World Gaze's mission statement: The application "gives you a new kind of viewpoint to the world, allowing you to see through the surface (and insides) of the planet all the way to the other side. Just point your phone to some direction and you will see reality in a way you have never seen before. In addition to geographical features such as continents in their real physical locations, Nokia 3D World Gaze allows you to see geotagged media, day and night regions, current location of the Sun, and other content from locations around the world."
The new version is labelled v2.4.23 and here's a rough guide to what's new for you to play with:
- Now fully compatible with Nokia Belle
- Reworked interface, with moved/extra icons
- Recent earthquakes from the last 48 hours are shown on the globe as flashes and rings. Tapping on them opens a relevant web page from U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program. In addition, when (Wiki)News is enabled, all earthquakes in the last 7 days are shown on the globe.
- Public geotagged tweets from Twitter can be shown. They are hidden by default, but you can use the Settings menu (slide open from left) to enable them.
- You can now choose the web search engine (Bing or Google) in the Settings menu.
- You get more content of the kind you're looking at: the app requests only the content types that are currently enabled. For instance, if you're looking at photos, only new photo items are being downloaded in the background from the server.
- Backend (server) upgrade with improved performance and more content. There are now over 8.3 million items in the database, with new rolling content including earthquakes and public geotagged tweets.
Tweets spotted in Australia...
...tapping a tweet brings it up for viewing or following up
Earthquakes being reported near Singapore! Tap the animated 'quake flash for more information.