THE METAVERSE The Metaverse is a progression of the internet – taking it from a 2D environment to fully immersive 3D. Metaverse spaces will include both fabricated virtual worlds as well as replicas and augmentations of real environments. These 3D spaces shall be interconnected and allow participants to move from one space to another for applications such as shopping, gaming, training, meetings, and more. Experiences representing the real world are the key areas where 3D reality mesh models shall play a critical role. GLOBAL LEADERS IN 3D MODELLING Aerometrex is a geospatial tech company known globally for its high-resolution 3D modelling solution. The company has been mapping large, city-scale environments in 3D and has captured numerous projects that run into the thousands of square kms. It has continuously enhanced and expanded its offering in the 3D space over the last decade and has been awarded for work across USA, Australia, and Europe. With a range of applications spanning BIM, AEC, gaming, virtual production, and digital twins, the metaverse is an ideal culmination of what we’ve been doing up to this point. Aerometrex’s mission has always been to deliver cutting-edge 3D solutions to solve real-world problems. With a customer-first approach, our team is focused on keeping up with the latest emerging visualisation technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality, game engines, and interactive visualisation tools and software. The company’s 3D solution is known for its scalability, quality and multi-platform operability. OTHER APPLICATIONS OF AEROMETREX 3D DATA ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪
Smart city planning and digital twins Asset planning and monitoring Change management & analysis 3D visualisation and consultation Real-world simulation for virtual / augmented reality Historical archiving of buildings or town areas
3D DATA AND THE METAVERSE INTEGRATING THE REAL & VIRTUAL WORLDS High-resolution 3D reality mesh is an ideal dataset for large-scale and monetised metaverse platforms. An ultra-realistic sense of location is fundamental to the metaverse business model, selling users access to a virtual version of a familiar and desirable location and then building an e-commerce system around it. Accurately recreating cities is a crucial draw into the metaverse, and Aerometrex’s highresolution 3D data enriches these platforms, helping connect the real world to the virtual one. Users will want 3D maps to navigate and make sense of virtual spaces just as they do the real world. Also, having accurate versions of real-world locations underpins the sale of virtual real estate within the metaverse – driven by forces like those in the real world, such as desirability, location, physical structure features and speculation on future value. 3D data has become a key input for a range of diverse industries and applications from BIM and AEC to virtual production and gaming. As technology pushes us further into the digital world, the ability to accurately capture, render and sell reality-derived products is becoming critical to a range of modern businesses. The ever-increasing flexibility, quality and accessibility of 3D data boosts the end consumer’s desire for more immersive and engaging environments. GLOBAL LEADERS IN 3D MODELLING Aerometrex city models offer extremely close replicas of the real world through digitization. These ultra-realistic models are instrumental to the implementation of metaverse applications, enabling virtual and augmented reality as well as social interaction within a life-like environment that can be scaled from a building to street to an entire city. At Aerometrex, we’re seeing that the same data that’s being used for construction of the real world is now being used for the virtual world. That integration of the real & virtual world is key for the metaverse to succeed.
Image Source: Lunaverse video showcasing their conceptual metaverse built around Aerometrex’s Las Vegas 3D model and incorporating some of the Terra (Luna) ecosystem projects. DIGITAL TWINS ENABLING VIRTUAL INTERACTION Aerometrex 3D data has been a foundation of Digital Twins for many years. These virtual twins, built around a geospatial framework, have enabled planning, modelling and visualisation for critical projects. 3D digital twins form a key to the future of the Metaverse, and shall help build user engagement. These virtual worlds shall come to life through a web browser and offerings linked to the metaverse. SUPPORTING INNOVATION IN THE METAVERSE SPACE Aerometrex is supplying 3D data at human scale, to address the interest among large metaverse players. Expansion in computing power has enabled 3D tech to go much further – it is now possible to go from large scale (city-wide) models down to a small building and even interiors (with terrestrial scans) enabling people to interact with their real environment in a virtual replica.
Las Vegas 3D model within Epic’s Unreal Engine, showcasing the potential for artificial scene creation using game engine integrations.
THE ROLE OF GAME ENGINES IN ENHANCING 3D FOR THE METAVERSE The integration of geospatial 3D data into game engines has further simplified and enabled the rendering of near-real 3D scenes in real-time using basic consumer hardware. With integrations such as Cesium for Unreal, decades of gaming technology development have been unlocked for geospatial 3D applications. GROWING INTEREST AMONG METAVERSE PLAYERS Aerometrex has supplied 3D data to early metaverse implementations, including the likes of Omniscape and Lunaverse. These metaverse applications and early innovation shows the potential for far greater use of 3D city mesh models for virtual user engagement and interaction. Aerometrex 3D data has garnered interest among other global conglomerates working at the cutting edge of computer graphics, gaming, and computer vision. If you’re imagining – think of an internet made of 3D spaces.
Cesium for Unreal has helped simplify 3D rendering and shall expand the use of 3D data at human scale, across a range of metaverse applications.
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