Ubisoft are pulling out all the stops to help promote the liberate of the online video game of Tom Clancy's The Division. In the game a smallpox pandemic has brought downwardly the U.S. authorities too the USA has descended into uncontrollable panic.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks agone Ubisoft released The Division Map of New York. This map features a release of 360 grade panoramic Street View images which let yous to explore scenes of New York equally portrayed inwards the on-line game. These Street View type images exhibit a post-pandemic New York, devastated yesteryear the effects of the pandemic.
Ubisoft has straight off too released a novel online pandemic simulation map. Collapse presents a imitation pandemic outbreak centered to a greater extent than or less your abode too neighborhood. At the showtime of the simulation yous are infected alongside an unknown breed of smallpox. As the simulation plays out the map shows how your infection spreads through your immediate neighborhood, the residual of the province too eventually the residual of the world.
The map makes extensive role of the Google Places API to exhibit how real-word actions could speedily atomic number 82 to a widespread pandemic. As the simulation plays out yous are asked to pick out from your nearest hospitals, pharmacies, airports etc. The map uses the Google Places API to give yous a choice of your existent nearest businesses, hospitals too airports. As yous pick out from these Google Places locations the map updates to exhibit how the pandemic mightiness spread equally yous movement to a greater extent than or less infecting people equally yous go.
Ubisoft's Collapse simulator was in all likelihood inspired yesteryear the Map of the Dead. This zombie survival map shows yous nearby locations that could live handy if at that topographic point is e'er a zombie outbreak.
Originally the Map of the Dead too used the Google Places API to exhibit yous nearby concern locations, such equally supermarkets, pharmacies too other locations that mightiness convey the resources that yous demand to live on inwards a cope against the undead. The Map of the Dead even too thence has straight off switched from Google Places to the Foursquare API to exhibit yous these nearby concern locations.
