How can I add a 3d object as a marker on Google Maps like Uber does

Question

I want to add a 3d marker for showing cars on map with rotation like Uber does but I can't find any information on adding 3d objects on Google Maps SDK for iOS.

Would appreciate any help.

Apparently no one is seeing what OP and I are seeing so here's a video of a Uber car turning 90 degrees. Play it frame by frame and you'll notice that it's not a simple image rotation. Either Uber went through the trouble of doing ~360 angles of each vehicles, or it really is a 3D model. Doing 360 images of every car seems foolish to me.

Answer 1

From what I can tell, they are not using 3D objects. They are also not animating between 400 images of a car at a different angle. They're doing a mix of rotating image assets and animating between ~50-70 images of a car at different angles. The illusion is perfect because it really does look like they used 3D car models !

Look at this GIF of a Uber car turning a corner (Dropbox link):

We can clearly see that that the shadow and the car's view angle doesn't update as often as the car's rotation.

Here I overlaid 2 images of the car at different angles, but using the same car image:

We can see that the map is rotated ~5 degrees but the car image is perfectly clear because it hasn't changed, it was simply rotated.