Climate globe in the room
How much water is in your place?
Pick a place and see how much water you can get there from rain, fog and air – and what it costs. In VR or on a screen, in about three minutes.
Checking whether your device can do VR …
- Press “Start in VR”, then put the headset on (or use the preview on screen).
- Choose your place – type it above or pick it on the globe in the headset.
- Follow the tour (about 3 minutes) and scan the QR code to take away at the end.
If you wear glasses: the headset often fits over them; otherwise ask the staff or use the preview on screen. You can sit.
Better on a PC: Quest Link
The headset becomes just the display and the PC does the work. It loads faster and shows more detail than the headset's own browser.
- By cable: connect a USB 3 cable (or a Link cable) from the PC to the headset and allow “Quest Link” in the headset.
- Over Wi-Fi: put headset and PC on the same fast Wi-Fi (5 or 6 GHz) and choose “Air Link” in the headset.
Then open this page on the PC in Chrome or Edge and click “Start in VR”. The Meta Quest Link app must be running on the PC.
For staff at the stand
Stand mode
Stand mode is for shared headsets: the tour (about 3 min) starts over as soon as someone has finished or stops tapping; nothing from the person is kept. Open the address below in the headset.
?messe&dauer=3
In stand mode: back to the start card after 75 s of inactivity (with a 15 s “Still there?” warning) and 90 s after the final card; draft, favourites and markers are deleted, nothing new is stored. The guessing questions follow the length (2 min: none, 3: one, 4: two, 5: three).
Short demo “From climate to supply”
A demo of about 80 seconds instead of the tour: the same house in Mannheim and Dubai, the components one after another, the QR code at the end. The same stand mode, but shorter patience: back to the start card after 45 s of rest (with a 15 s warning) and 45 s after the final card. The step times are estimates and should be checked with a stopwatch.
?messe&kurz
Change of visitor
Resets tour, place, builder and stored input at once. The button asks again so it cannot fire by accident. In the headset the same button sits at the bottom of every card (“Staff: reset”, tap twice).
Offline copy
Loads the page, scripts, climate data, coastlines and terrain onto this device. Afterwards the tour runs without internet. Do it once beforehand on good Wi-Fi – and test the device offline at the stand.
Not offline: the OpenFreeMap base map (the drawn coastline with the note “Map tiles not reachable” appears instead) and “Weather now” (the typical month is used instead). Map tiles are deliberately not preloaded: their terms of use could not be checked, and bulk preloading is unwelcome on open map services.
Anonymous counters (on this device only)
Counted only in stand mode, stored only on this device, never sent: tours started and completed, aborts, duration, places (rounded to 2° squares). No head, hand or gaze data, no identifiers, no times of day.
| Today | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| Started | 0 | 0 |
| Completed (to the QR code) | 0 | 0 |
| Aborted | 0 | 0 |
| Avg duration (completed) | – | – |
| QR code shown | 0 | 0 |
| Guesses right | – | – |
QR scans cannot be measured: they happen on the person's phone. What is counted is how often the code was shown. Several headsets: export per device and add up.
Show on a monitor or TV (casting)
This lets staff and people waiting see what the person in the headset sees:
- Headset, phone with the Meta Quest app and TV (or Chromecast) on the same Wi-Fi – ideally your own 5 GHz router.
- Put the headset on (staff) → headset menu → “Share” → “Cast”. Or choose “Cast” in the Meta Quest app on the phone.
- Choose the phone, a computer in the browser (Meta's casting page) or a Chromecast-capable TV as the target and confirm.
- Then hand the headset to the person, who chooses “Start in VR” on the page. The picture stays on the TV.
Menu names change with the software version of the headset and the app – test it at the stand beforehand. One eye's view is shown, with a little delay. This is a guide, not a feature of this page.
There is no separate spectator page that redraws the state live: it would need a server that carries the person's place choice and steps – which contradicts the rule that nothing about the person leaves the device.
How to use it
- First steps: 1. Tap a place on the globe · 2. "Enter place" · 3. "Build": suggestion or your own modules · 4. "Take away": scan the QR code.
- Controllers: point the ray at the globe, a button or a component and press the trigger.
- Hands: point and tap thumb and index finger together.
- Turn the globe: hold the trigger and drag. After a swipe it keeps turning a little. Tapping picks a place; "Enter place" on the tablet takes you in.
- Preview on screen: click and drag with the mouse. With the keyboard, everything works through the buttons below.
Good to know
- Nothing moves around you: no pushing, no shaking, no walking. When you enter a place the room goes dark for a moment and is then swapped – there is no camera flight. Only the globe turns, when you turn it.
- If you feel dizzy or unwell, take a break at once and remove the headset.
- You only need about one metre of space. With “Seated” on the panel, everything stands lower.
- Stay inside the boundary your headset shows on the floor (Guardian), and put the controllers' wrist straps around your wrists.
- To leave: the “Exit VR” button on the panel or the menu button of your headset.
- Droply sends no head or hand movements. Your system in the builder stays in this browser (at a stand not even that: everything is deleted after each visit). For the map background the page asks OpenFreeMap for the map images of your place, for “Weather now” only on request our own function. In stand mode the device counts anonymously (number, duration, rough place) – on the device only, nothing is sent.