Worldmapper VR

We’ve cleaned up the Worldmapper app and have released it for anyone to download. Download Worldmapper for the Vision Pro. Previously, we wrote about Wyld’s Great Globe and how we adapted that concept into an Apple Vision Pro app with the help of team from Worldmapper.org Just because the app is published doesn’t mean it is done. We will continue to evolve the app over time with new maps will be added and old ones updated. Outreach The goal of the project is to be part of the larger outreach program at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands). Working with the Worldmapper team, we took some of their equirectilinear projection maps and worked to display them in a sphere. This produces maps with no distortion – the bane of any 2D map projection. For the Meta Quests, we created a 5K looping video of the Nature’s Heartbeat. The video loads in various spherical video players as if you were in the center of the Earth. It is the same benefits as Wyld’s Great Globe, it removes all the…