Player data from a single match on Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map. | Image: Activision
Activision is sharing an open-source dataset pulled from Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training.
“This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, 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,” Activision writes in a blog post.
According to Michael Vance, an Activision SVP and fellow software engineer, it’s one of “the largest production-validated open data set releases from the gaming industry in terms of complexity of geometry and instance counts.” It’s also one of the largest publicly available OpenUSD (a file format for 3D…