The World is Your Canvas: Building 3D Global-Scale Real or Imaginary Worlds
summary
Panelists describe a working global 3D pipeline: Maxar supplies 100+ petabytes of imagery and a 3D globe accurate to within a couple feet (15 cm pixels) and SecureWatch APIs; Blackshark.ai converts satellite tiles into textured building meshes and built a planet for Microsoft Flight Simulator but needed custom streaming and a procedural grammar to compress and conflate on client; Cesium offers a Cesium for Unreal plugin and moving 3D Tiles to 1.1; Unreal Engine 5.1 adds procedural content hooks; demos include a New Orleans dataset and live change‑detection maps of Ukraine.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and panel
- 3:01The importance of digital twins
- 11:00Technological advancements
- 20:42The 'recipe' for success
- 27:54Overcoming industry challenges
- 37:22Dynamic terrain and change
- 42:01Getting started with tools
- 46:54Audience Q&A
related talks
25mUsing Unreal Engine in Simulation Applications
29mCreating 3D web maps with Cesium
18mTowards a virtual reality meta-Earth- 29mCreating 3D web maps with Cesium
03mHOK’s Centre Block Digital Twin
27mFrom Flatland to Spaceland
30mFrom imagining to creating better worlds in RT3D
15mGaming the Future of Architecture