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Activision releases Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera map data as open source for non-commercial use

Activision is sharing its Caldera map data set today from Call of Duty: Warzone for non-commecial use.

This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains thenear-complete geometry of Caldera as well as a collection of randomly selected anonymizedtime samples showing how players move around the map. In a brief discussion with Activision’s CTO Natalya Tatarchuk and senior vice president and fellow software engineer Michael Vance, the technology team details everything included in the set, the vision for the release, and how providing Caldera to academics and researchers can benefit the Call of Duty Community and positively impact the future of gaming. The computer graphics industry has a strong legacy of canonical data sets—some may be familiar with for example the Stanford bunny, Dabrovic Sponza, or more recently Disney’s Moana Island, or Animal Logic’s ALab.

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