Experiments, labelled as experiments.

Kynance Cove rendered as a painting: real one-metre Environment Agency LIDAR relief, sea shaded by depth, and stylised rock built in Blender, all painted by a GPU brushwork pass rather than a texture.

Known limit The clifftop skyline is genuinely level, because the Lizard is level, and no camera inside this window fixes that. Rock texture tiles visibly on the largest cliff faces, and nothing casts a shadow across the ground yet.

A drive from Westminster Bridge to Trafalgar Square, four light presets that follow the real sun. Buildings dissolve when they block the road ahead so the route is never hidden, live TfL buses and Thames vessels move where they really are, and ?vehicle=truck reruns the same endpoints through truck costing: the engine visibly refuses Whitehall and takes the Embankment instead.

Known limit One scripted corridor, not a product: the rest of the planet still renders as the standard map. Grab the map mid-drive and it keeps navigating without you.

Columbus Circle through Times Square to the Chrysler Building: real MTA buses where they actually are, and a tap on any bus overlays its real route. Towers at their true surveyed heights dissolve when they block the view of the road, and four light presets follow the real sun down the canyon.

Known limit Same scripted-corridor honesty as London: one drive, the rest of the planet renders as the standard map. Landmark models (the Chrysler crown deserves better than a box) are still to come.