The latest update to Google Earth is offering several cool features. The first one is native control for Leap Motion – gesture controller shipping in a few days. The other cool stuff will make it possible to create really photo-realistic visualizations with starry sky and the new experimental “photo-realistic atmosphere” option, which will be also possible to print with enhanced options.

Leap Motion is San Francisco-based startup which created a gesture-control system that measures users’ movements to an accuracy of a hundredth of a millimeter, as some call it “Kinect on steroids”. It gained a lot of attention in the industry and many software and hardware providers decided to work with it. Check out how cool it work with Google Earth:

The other cool update is “photo-realistic atmosphere” feature. The new feature is still being tested and may be a bit buggy, but can be enabled on your computer right now if you go to [Tools] –> [Options] –> “Use photorealistic atmosphere rendering“. If you’re lucky you’ll be able to capture view like that one:

What’s cool about Google Earth team is that they’re still trying to more and more to make the software more user-friendly and more natural in term of how you use it. They’ve just added support for new Wii U and now also Leap Motion. Great work!