NowScape · In development
Find people, places and things in a 3D view of the real world.
Edge Orbital is developing NowScape, software that turns everyday photos and video into a 3D view of a real place that keeps updating.
Available
Tripwire Recon is on the App Store.
In development
Edge Orbital is building NowScape, a 3D view of real places that keeps updating.
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Edge Orbital is designing NowScape around three kinds of search.
People
A venue team could see where its staff are during a crowded event.
Places
A campus team could check a current 3D view of a building before anyone walks in.
Things
A field crew could find where a trailer or a generator was left this morning.
NowScape is designed to work in three steps.
In development
NowScape keeps a real place current. It does not simulate one.
01
Capture
Cameras and phones record a place from many angles.
02
Build
NowScape turns those views into a 3D view of the place that updates as it changes.
03
Find
You search that view for the person, place or thing you need.
Edge Orbital is building NowScape for four groups of people.
Field teams
Venue, campus and utility teams could use NowScape to find people, equipment and places on a site. Edge Orbital is looking for its first pilot team.
People on a walk home
The clip-on device Edge Orbital is designing would use NowScape to show what’s moving near you.
Mixed-reality games
Edge Orbital plans to bring NowScape into Tripwire Recon and Krewe of Play’s city games, and to offer it to other game makers.
Investors and grant programs
The investor brief covers the company, NowScape and what Edge Orbital still needs to prove.
Founder
Christopher Wolff has been mapping real places since 1995.
In 1995, Christopher directed the City of Tucson’s street survey project. A van with cameras, GPS and sensors drove more than 400 miles of city streets, and he used its images to rate the condition of the pavement.
He also developed Tucson’s digital orthophoto project, which corrects aerial photos so each point sits at its true map position, and he built VR coverage of the city from the survey data.
Since then he has built wireless networks, a data center in Tucson and city networks in New Orleans. Edge Orbital, the company he founded, is based in New Orleans.
Current progress
Available now
Tripwire Recon
Tripwire Recon is a free iOS game from Edge Orbital.
In development
NowScape
Edge Orbital is developing NowScape now. The product updates will share its progress.
In development
Clip-on device
Edge Orbital is designing a small clip-on device that would use NowScape to show what’s moving near you on a walk home. It still has to be built and tested.
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