Cesium

Are you featuring a Cesium-powered solution at #IITSEC2024? Get on the map! Fill out this form to tell us more about your work with Cesium: https://hubs.li/Q02W_Stb0

To elevate the look of Cesium apps on the web, we’ve shipped key updates to #glTF rendering over the past few CesiumJS releases, including improvements to the glTF physically based rendering (PBR) material model and tone mapping. We're aiming for more than just pretty pictures—fundamentally our goal is to improve the user's understanding of complex 3D geospatial scenes. https://hubs.li/Q02WV37w0

Business leaders across industries are using #NVIDIAOmniverse and #OpenUSD to digitalize and transform their industrial processes. Watch the full video to see how they are integrating and scaling #DigitalTwins and #AI to optimize operations, reduce costs, and drive sustainability. Featuring: Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics, Cesium, Microsoft, and Siemens ▶️ https://nvda.ws/3YQgkbb

FOSS4G 2024 Japan (https://lnkd.in/gGZyr3MN) will take place next weekend. In addition to our two entries, Cesium team will also be present. Here are the highlights. - Keynote speech by Patrick Cozzi (https://lnkd.in/gmBghZ8F) - CesiumJS/TerriaJS plugin development by Oscar Bralo - Ceisum hands-on workshop by Cesium team (https://lnkd.in/g3KEvxas) - Cesium for Unreal hands-on workshop by Pacific Spatial Solutions 株式会社(https://lnkd.in/gW9rhHtE) See you there!!

Congratulations to new #CesiumCertified Developer Kensaku Kaneko! The Cesium Certified Developer Program recognizes the technical expertise of developers who build on the Cesium platform. It's free + open to all. Learn more about the program: https://hubs.li/Q02WNrd-0

The open-source Cesium Native library is the 3D Tiles streaming and geospatial brains used by the Cesium plugins for Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse - and other 3D Tiles support in the ecosystem such as osgEarth and Vulkan Scene Graph. We even use it in Cesium ion for 3D geospatial intrinsics and glTF and 3D Tiles IO. Although we wouldn't quite call it 1.0, we're at the point where we are encouraging additional integrations and community contributions - as these have been happening organically and we want to provide the right scaffolding and support. If you're using Cesium Native or considering it, we would love to hear what type of resources would be most useful to you, e.g., architecture diagrams; getting started videos; engine-agnostic code examples; more reference documentation; etc. Please chime in here or on the community forum thread that Janine Liu is facilitating. https://lnkd.in/eaFz8UuE

One reason I built Havitar was to help people tell stories, like this one for Hostel Cubed. We created this massive model in Agisoft Metashape, and shared it using Cesium Ion. The resolution is so high you can see art on the vertical walls and individual snakeholes on the terrain. Way better than google earth. If you can't visit the Hostel Cubed opening on Nov 14, be with us in spirit. https://lnkd.in/gRi3xAwt

We've leveled up visual quality in CesiumJS thanks to the awesome ecosystem that has formed around glTF Physically-Based Rendering (PBR). Lighting opaque surfaces now use a more physically plausible microfacet-based model, and reflective surfaces now have better energy conservation simulation using approximate multiple scattering for diffuse light. In addition, the Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper is now used to scale the PBR output from linear values approximating real-world light energy to what a screen can display. The overall result is nicer visuals, brighter models, and more consistent visual output across the glTF ecosystem. This is a great open standards success story where the community contributions to glTF have enabled many engines - including CesiumJS and the 3D Tiles ecosystem - to benefit without having to reinvent from first principles. We're planning to make additional visual quality improvements to CesiumJS. Let us know what would benefit your apps the most and check out the blog for the full details on PBR: https://lnkd.in/ebqAeA7q Cesium, The Khronos Group

Using scientific data and emerging technologies, we created an immersive story for NZZ on how climate change is transforming Switzerland's landscapes in 2075. Free in English/German now: https://lnkd.in/dbvDqPjj I’ve been excited to combine Unreal Game Engine with 3D mapping tools like MapTiler and Cesium to tell a climate story. Over the past year, I was delighted to work with Adina Renner, Sven Titz, Tom Vaillant, Michel Grautstueck, and Cian Jochem – to develop a project that accurately creates 3D environments of the Aare watershed in 2075. With the scientific guidance of Arthur Provost and Niklaus E. Zimmermann, who provided detailed climate and terrain models as well as vegetation data, I was able to construct detailed environments in Unreal. Check out this medium post, that provides insight into some of the novel techniques we explored. Link below in comments. Thanks to Tom Vaillant & Adina Renner for making this happen!

New Cesium releases are available! - CesiumJS 1.123 updates default 3D Tiles and Model lighting when using PBR in order to create a more realistic appearance. - Cesium for Unreal 2.10.0 adds a shared assets system that ensures external images referenced by different glTFs will only be loaded once per image. - Cesium for Unity 1.13.1 adds restrictions to CesiumRuntime.asmdef to prevent the plugin from attempting to load on platforms not supported by Cesium Native. - Cesium for Omniverse 0.24.0 fixes a bug where smooth normals setting would crash. - Cesium ion updates include Japan 3D content, annotations in Cesium Stories, and an improved Asset Server. See all the release highlights and download:  https://hubs.li/Q02WGNM90