Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

Key points

• We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool neighborhood.
• Imagine being able to do that, but in a more immersive, interactive way that allows you to really simulate the street and its environs, and even do things like adjust the weather or see what it would look like in a “Day After Tomorrow” scenario.
• That’s one of the goals of Google’s latest integration.
• Starting today, Google DeepMind is connecting Street View to Project Genie, the company’s general-purpose world model that can generate diverse, interactive environments.
• The new feature launched during the Google I/O 2026 developer conference.