How a Game Engine is Powering Orlando’s Digital Twin

The US city of Orlando and its region launched this year its digital twin thanks to the Orlando Economic Partnership. The project is one -of -a -kind regarding scale as it is the first time an entire region has been digitally duplicated. with the orlando digital twin the partnership was looking to have a visualization of data, overlay all the demographic information on the virtual representation, but to also show how the region is a tech hub since it is leading the way of the metaverse in the United States. Thank you. Thank you. This digital twin, which had a cost of around $1 million, including hardware and software, just launched and is still in its phase one, in which the Orlando Economic Partnership is looking to share and communicate all that is going on in central Florida in a very visual For phase two, they are hoping to partner with airports, universities, local governments and developers to gather data and build on top of the digital twin to make the information richer, more useful and also bring real-time data to the table. We'll be right back. only has a unique digital twin regarding scale, but also in vibe due to their choice in vendor. They chose game engine Unity for the project. Unity, founded in 2004 in Copenhagen, was originally developed to create 2D and 3D games, as well as simulations and other experiences, and has been used in incredibly successful games like Pokemon Go and virtual reality movies like Lion King. But Unity found that their skill set was being used in other industries as well, ones that far from games and movies. For five years, the company has been developing their digital twin business and has already been involved in some major projects. apart from central florida's virtual representation like the vancouver airport digital twin the entire airport's daily operation is done through a unity based digital twin with data from the whole facility the digital twin allows vancouver airport staff to estimate where congestion is going to take place for example so they can make data -based decisions unity which in 2021 had a revenue of 1 .1 billion dollars claims that moving into the digital twin world has been a success. The Orlando Unity project is unique at the moment, but might inspire other regions to follow in their footsteps. We're looking forward to seeing how Unity evolves in the smart city industry and Orlando's next steps with its digital twin. Keep up with us for more insights into smart city technology.