God's Eye View

God's Eye View (formerly WorldView) is a spy-satellite simulator that runs in your browser — with one twist: every pixel of data is real. Built by Bilawal Sidhu, it layers live flights, ships, satellites, earthquakes, wildfires, and public cameras onto a photorealistic 3D Earth, all wrapped in a military-grade HUD with night vision, thermal imaging, and voice control. It has earned 51,857 GitHub stars, hit #1 on GitHub Trending (daily and weekly) in August 2026, and placed #8 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

In the author's own words: "This is WorldView. Satellite tracking, military flights, live CCTV, street traffic, night vision, and thermal, all vibe coded in 3 days with AI agents." He later explained on the Riley Brown podcast that he built it using the OpenClaw harness — "Pi driving Codex and Claude code" — letting AI agents write the bulk of the codebase in a single long weekend.

Live layers on a real planet

The globe is powered by CesiumJS with Google's Photorealistic 3D Tiles, so cities, terrain, and airports look startlingly real. On top of that world sit the live layers:

• Live flights — commercial and military aircraft tracked in real time, with the ability to jump between planes and ride along in a full cockpit view.
• Ships (AIS) — vessels plotted worldwide, plus labeled undersea cable routes drawn beneath the ocean surface.
• Satellites — track the ISS along its orbital path, follow SpaceX Starlink trains, or replay a Falcon 9 ascent curving into its projected orbit.
• Earthquakes & wildfires — natural events appear as they happen, with fires glowing as bright detection hotspots.
• Public CCTV cameras — dive from orbit into a live street camera, e.g. an Austin intersection projected right into the 3D scene.
• Global radio stations — the entire planet's radio layer can be summoned as another dimension of live data.

Look like a spy

The sensor-mode switcher is the star of the show: cycle between Normal, NVG night vision, FLIR thermal (including Ironbow palettes), and a retro CRT mode that makes the whole globe feel like a classified terminal. Everything is framed by a slick heads-up display with detection rings, tracking readouts, and "top secret" styling.

Talk to the satellite

Voice control, powered by the OpenAI Realtime API, is built into the experience. You can speak to annotate landmarks on the 3D city ("mark Zilker Park"), ask for spoken distance measurements across an airport, or request a walking route and then fly the generated path through the city. It's the closest thing to talking to a movie AI — except the map below is real.

Go deeper

For the curious: select any aircraft to resolve its recent flight path into stacked 3D loops above the terrain, inspect dense rows of retired planes at the boneyard, or drop from a full airport overhead down to individual taxiway traffic in Google 3D detail. With 817 commits, 4 releases, and active development still merging, the repo keeps growing.

Under the hood

JavaScript + Vite frontend, CesiumJS globe, Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, and the OpenAI Realtime API for voice. Open source under the MIT license. Clone it, run it locally, and you own your own spy satellite — the data underneath was always public, and now the interface finally matches the fantasy.

From viral build to open source

God's Eye View first exploded as a TikTok-built side project — a "satellite tracking, military flights, live CCTV" demo that blew up tech Twitter and YouTube. Community demand pushed Sidhu to open-source it (the repo now carries an "open source reveal" trailer and a community survey), and the code quality turned out to be as serious as the visuals: CI-checked, MIT-licensed, and documented with an extensive media walkthrough. Reviewers and streamers keep coming back to one observation: the build quality doesn't look AI-generated at all — which is exactly the point of modern vibe coding when the harness, the prompts, and the review loop are all sharp.

Try it

There is no hosted demo — this is a developer toy first and foremost. Clone the repository, follow the README's API-key setup (Google 3D Tiles and data providers each need free keys), run it locally, and within minutes you're orbiting the real world with FLIR on and the ISS crossing overhead. Star it, fork it, and see how far three days of AI-agent coding can really go.