Epic Games Debuts Unreal Engine’s ‘Project Anywhere’

The company has struck a partnership with tech giants to build the world's next major geospatial platform

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Published: October 5, 2021

Demond Cureton

Real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation platform firm Epic Games recently announced a partnership with US tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft, and 3D geospatial company Cesium to unveil a RT3D simulator for producing geospatial mapping and digital twins of key global locations.

The team originally announced Project Anywhere late last year and aims to integrate the solution into Microsoft HoloLens 2 to boost interaction and immersive extended reality (XR) experiences.

The project originally aimed to stream 3D Tiles, which has become the open standard for Cesium ion’s “massive, heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets” using Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming feature to stream across devices such as computers, tablets, and mobile devices, among others.

Users can download Project Anywhere XR for free as a sample from Unreal Engine, which will also  include Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) for Unreal, allowing users to teleport to places of interest and travel across numerous terrains, buildings, and landmarks.

Navigation on the platform allows automatic streaming of Microsoft Bing’s map data, OpenStreetMap (OSM) Building, and photogrammetry data sets supplied by the Cesium for Unreal plugin.

Designers for the project will present the solution live at the GEOINT Symposium taking place October 5 to 8 in St Louis, Missouri. A demo video will also stream on the GTC 2021 website for remote audiences.

The announcement comes just months after US 3D tech firm Matterport began building its Habitat-Matterport 3D Research Dataset (HM3D) to develop digital twins for indoor spaces.

The firm has expanded its solution to 14 US cities along with US states Texas, Washington, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, and Illinois, New York, and California, among others.

Bristol-based spatial data company Urban Hawk also developed a 5G spatial data solution to digitise structures as well as provide satellite imagery to create RT3D data structures for key industries.

 

 

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