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Activision Releases Call of Duty Caldera Map in Open Source

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2 months ago

July 31, 2024

Anthony

Activision has officially made the Caldera map in Call of Duty available for non-commercial use, making the announcement on Wednesday that the release of an open-source data set featuring Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map is available.

The set, as described by the company, contains “the near-complete geometry of Caldera as well as a collection of randomly selected anonymized time samples showing how players move around the map.”

The move is aimed at empowering developers and educators and to also assist in AI training in which the company believes can lead to “more intelligent systems, paving the way for the next generation of gaming and simulation technologies.”

“The map’s geometry data is approximately 4 GB but is comprised of more than five million meshes, 28 million primitives, and more than one-billion-point instances, which can also represent scene metadata such as volumes that we use for lighting processing,” Activision’s Chief Technology Officer Natalya Tatarchuk said in an official statement. “Its complexity is also a testament to the richness and detail that the team at Raven Software built, with help from Beenox, High Moon Studios, and the broader Call of Duty development teams.”

You can learn more about the data set and also download it for yourself right here.

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Infinity Ward May Add NFTs to Call of Duty

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2 years ago

April 6, 2022

Anthony

With the popularity of NFT booming across the world, and particularly when it comes to gaming, it comes as no surprise to learn that one of the most popular gaming franchises is looking to cash in on the NFT craze.

According to insider RalphsValve, Infinity Ward, the developers behind the mega-popular Call of Duty franchise, is looking to add even more personalization into accounts on Activision, which is the structure of personalization for in-game players.

While no finite details were provided, the report stated that Activision is also currently investigating the implementation of NFTs in Call of Duty, which would open a whole new world for NFT artists and gamers already in the market.

Infinity Ward will likely tread carefully given the terrible response to Ubisoft’s testing of NFTs last year, with Ubisoft Quartz.

NFTs still have an uphill battle in winning over gamers, but with more and more games and developers getting on board with NFTs, and using social media and NFT SEO to help target core gaming markets, it may be a matter of time before they are accepted mainstream.