![]() ![]() 3D Tiles may very well become the spatial temporal index for all of it. ![]() This ecosystem of ecosystems will be enabled by open standards and platforms of platforms. My prediction is that the dividing line between the physical and digital worlds will continue to blur, as will the line between 3D geospatial and game assets and ecosystems. We live in an exciting time of ubiquitous sensors capturing the real world drones and autonomous vehicles carrying sensors photogrammetry and AI algorithms creating semantic 3D models data explosion in resolution and collection frequency plentiful cloud compute and storage AR and VR devices coming of age 5G bandwidth on the rise GPUs that rival past supercomputers and cell phones that rival yesteryear’s laptops. I look forward to coming back to this blog to reflect on the leaps you take at this inflection point. I freely admit to occasionally looking back at our company launch blog post of 2019, the Introducing 3D Tiles blog of 2015, or the first CesiumJS community forum post of 2012 to reflect on where we thought we were going compared to where you, the community, brought us with your creativity and contributions. We are advancing both engines in parallel and cross-leveraging our efforts for example, by advancing 3D Tiles and glTF specifications, by utilizing Cesium ion services, and by simply applying lessons learned on topics such as high-precision rendering and 3D Tiles streaming optimizations. The Cesium PlatformĬesium for Unreal is a complement to CesiumJS, our open source purpose-built 3D engine for the web. We believe this openness will facilitate rapid collaborative innovation and create collective community success, while giving our business the opportunity to grow based on merit and delivering valuable services. Cesium for Unreal is anything but commodity, so we are a bit extreme in the openness of our model. This business model is called an open-core business model and is sometimes used where commodity software is made open source to support potential interest in value-add commercial software. Cesium ion is an optional commercial service that provides real-world 3D content and 3D tiling pipelines, which supports funding our open source development. As such, Cesium for Unreal is free and open source under the liberal Apache 2.0 license. We believe that significant and sustained contributions to the ecosystem create lasting value and advance our craft faster than a pure-play proprietary model. Community success is at the core of Cesium’s DNA. ![]()
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