GeoSim on Building a Virtual Philadelphia
GeoSim started its work in mirror worlds developing terrain models for the Israeli Air Force. After years and millions in work with the military, it switched to the commercial side of things, beginning with city models. The first of which is Virtual Philadelphia in partnership with the Center City District and the Convention and Visitors Bureau, which has been in a quiet beta operation over the last few months, but will be launching new features, like avatars, next week and aiming for a full public launch sometime in November. At that time, GeoSim hopes to have launched with commercial activities, featuring shops, stores, and museums.
"The city model is still a major investment," explained CEO Victor Shenkar. "We would feature it as an application platform that could at the same time support infrastructure planning, security, and training at the same time as business, search, and local real estate, and, last, but not least, games and social interaction."
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