[Andrew_nenakhov]

I wonder if geoscape view from 1993 game XCom would constitute as a prior artm

[mxfh]

Nope, it's not about rendering a single texture/vector globes, those have been done way before.

One of there earliest globes renderings* im aware off, all complete with weather data in late 60s:

https://twitter.com/wallacetim/status/908531916315471872

* for the sake of visual impression, 2D orthographic/stereographic projections are equivalent on-screen with proper 3d-renderings.