The new Street View in Earth features seamless movement. They apparently do it by mapping the Street View images onto 3D building models. The end result is pretty terrible, though: lots of warping and a visible "pop" when moving from one image to another.
Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism
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Re: Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism
#32Still broken as hell on linux: http://code.google.com/p/earth-issues/issues/detail?id=1068 The quality of google earth for linux is an embarrassment.
Broke for me too, but this solved it: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=14469...
On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install lsb-core