The prompt… er, well, prompt doesn’t appear in portrait orientation on iOS 18.

I like the idea, but it's really glitchy and borderline epilepsy-inducing

I don't know what this is supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to work.

it seems to work, but i dont know what i should be doing with it or what i am looking at

I can't get it to work, but it sounds interesting. Does anyone have a screen recording to share?

Mostly I seem to be looking at some pretty great looking clouds and some (fake?) satellite imagery, but not seeing any people or armies or anything. And then every now and then it sort of glitches out and resets everything.

I'd love to see a video or something of it in action.

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Oh, it seems to work much better in 2D. Now I see markers and stuff.

I don't totally understand this, but it has the potential to be very, very cool.

(The satellite imagery doesn't work in Firefox. Just clouds.)

This is magic. I just did volcano and it simulated lava flow, emergency responders, blast zones. Pretty cool stuff.

I asked for a large asteroid impacting the Pacific ocean. Interestingly the resultant tidal wave apparently heads directly to Honolulu, then to Terminal Island, then reverses course and visits Sydney before traveling overland through New South Wales and Queensland, causing some earthquakes in Papua New Guinea, and coming to rest in Tokyo Harbour.

Also I just realised I can talk to the asteroid. It understandably seems a little traumatized.

    me: Hi! What brings you to this particular part of the ocean?
    
    asteroid: *hurtling through the atmosphere at tremendous speed, trailing
        fire* AAARRRRRGGGHHHHH! NOT BY CHOICE! Gravity's got me in its grip! 
        Been floating peacefully through space for millions of years until your 
        planet's pull caught me! CAN'T STOP NOW! *glowing brighter* Ocean impact 
        in approximately 17 seconds! Nothing personal against this particular 
        patch of water! BRACE FOR TSUNAMI! *increasing in brightness and 
        velocity*

https://mused.com/map/sim/2225/asteroid-impact-event

interesting

I don't understand what it's supposed to do. I see clouds and a prompt entry. I type something in and it just gives me a text response about New York urban tourism...?

The scaling is off on mobile, the prompt box is hidden from view etc.

This might be being unfair, but I asked it to simulate the Battle of Goose Green, during the Falklands war of 1982.

Its just a blank screen - https://mused.com/map/sim/2993/battle-of-goose-green

I am excited to see it working though!

Doesn't work in Chrome (no map), doesn't work in Firefox. This sounds really interesting and I would love a video of it working its magic.

Seems very interesting tho. Maybe pre-generate the three "prompts" that you show when I open the page, and load them from cache when I select them? At least I can see how it should work.

edit: in 2d the map loads, in 3d it doesn't load. But when it works in 2d it's VERY COOL!

Here's my example: https://mused.com/map/sim/3129/roman-civil-wars-of-the-1st-c...

Cool idea, can only use 2D at the moment. Looks like the 3D tile quota is exhausted: "message": "Quota exceeded for quota metric '3D Tiles root requests' and limit '3D Tiles root requests per day' of service 'tile.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:1016378558728'."

https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/root.json?key=AIzaSyB...

Update: sorry google maps 3d tiles aren't displaying!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXS9sNcDLJU

The Google Maps 3d Photorealistic Tiles are returning 429 Error too many requests Looks like will need to build in the ability for people to bring their own Google Maps API key. Fix up shortly