Smart Buildings
How to use WRLD Map Design Tools
Our Map Design tools allow anyone to visualize their world better through creating custom 3D maps of their locations, without extensive coding. Your indoor or outdoor maps are full of location-rich and real-time content that you can manage and share... Read more
Unity
Cinematic storytelling in AR using WRLD 3D maps and Unity
When you think of Augmented Reality (AR), you may not think of the movies, yet, but AR is becoming an emerging format for building and sharing new or reimagined worlds. With cinematic storytelling in AR, individual separation from screen to... Read more
Travel
A 3D Airport Map Making Tutorial Using the wrld.js SDK
wrld.js is the WRLD JavaScript SDK built on the Leaflet API for creating interactive 3D map experiences on the web for both indoor and outdoor environments. Our friends at ProgrammableWeb featured a tutorial we wrote on how to build a... Read more
Unity
BUILD A SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY WORLD USING THE WRLD UNITY SDK
WRLD 3D maps provide a base platform to build location-based applications, create games, or visualize spatial data. However, WRLD is much more than just a 3D map; the platform core provides a fully built 3D representation of the world, an... Read more
Open Source
State of the Map US 2017
We had the pleasure of attending State of the Map 2017 this year, the OpenStreetMap communities’ annual U.S. conference to talk open source mapping and data, and of course celebrate community achievements. The event offered a rare chance to connect... Read more
Smart Workplace
How can businesses benefit from Digital Twin technology?
Although the term Digital Twin was first established in 2002, elements of the technology have in fact been around for quite some time. It’s the growth in IoT (Internet of Things) technology in recent years that has brought Digital Twin... Read more
Map Data
Creating a 3D Map of the World
Creating 3D maps at scale WRLD has been creating a 3D map of the world since 2010. Our mapping platform streams from the cloud in real-time to users globally on mobile, web, desktop, VR or AR apps. Our proprietary technology... Read more
SDK
Student Hackers Create a Voice Controlled Map App with WRLD
This past weekend, WRLD was a proud sponsor for the 4th annual Cal Hacks, which took place on the campus of UC Berkeley. With over 1700 participants from around the world, it’s one of the biggest hackathons in the world,... Read more
Augmented Reality
3D Maps and Augmented Reality Discussion with Sky News
We met with Sky News Swipe last month to talk about the future of augmented reality and digital maps. We discussed (alongside Facebook Live viewers as well) why using our mapping platform technology in augmented reality excites us and our... Read more
Announcements
3D Maps on Mobile with WRLD App
By Calum Leask/Mike McKenna We’re excited to announce our new app - ‘WRLD’. Coinciding with our new brand launch, WRLD will be our first publicly available app since Recce. It’s packed with new features and expanded map coverage, making it... Read more