Perplexity CEO unveils Google Earth-based flight & drive simulator
Ishaan Mukherjee, Published on Apr 29th, 2026

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas unveiled a simulator that lets people fly planes and drive vehicles over 3D environments mapped to real places, powered by Google Earth. It shows vibe coding's use for complex applications. Project uses React and Vite for frontend, CesiumJS and Three.js for 3D rendering and Google's 3D Map Tiles API and Geocoding API for location data.
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