Destiny Planet View - webm+JS animations???

[Verahta]

https://www.destinyplanetview.com/en/

Inspecting the elements of this sites menu (planets) I was ignorant of what I was seeing. It seems to be that what I thought was JS animations is in fact very short webm video clips? What?

Can someone tell me what this technique is called so I can study it?

And next part. When you actually click on a planet to view it, what do you think they are using here?

[Jackolantern]

I can't seem to get it to work. It just keeps loading and loading and loading...

[Verahta]

Hmm, try a different browser? It works fine for me in Chrome on Win7.

[hallsofvallhalla]

They are using google earth.
https://developers.google.com/earth/

Google licensed the technology to them so they could created their own worlds.

[Verahta]

Thanks, what about the initial "menu" screen with the planets you can select (which would THEN take you to Google Maps/Earth). The planets move, and it seems to be webm clips, with JS. That is the part I was trying to understand.