Cesium for Unreal plugin - gaming showing the future of 3D interactive mapping

Cesium yesterday released a free open source plugin for Unreal Engine, the plugin allows you to stream global 3D content into Unreal Engine using 3D tiles - blog post below. This is a big leap forward for interactive 3D mapping.

After following one of their tutorials I was able to bring in their 3D tiles and OSM buildings into the Unreal Engine. It took around 30 mins to setup and then I was able to fly from home into central London and then the upper atmosphere.

Also had a quick go at a virtual fieldtrip to the Vercors - changing the scenes time of day is a neat way of highlighting the platform.

Finally their Denver demo is absolutely awesome, the dataset is of the Union Station and uses Unreal's character controller. This lets you explore from the ground level and ultimately means you bump into cars and trees.

I look forward to bringing in some of the Neftex Predictions content into this environment in the future.