Tokyo Game Show 2026 Digital Map Adds WASD Walking View
A 3D venue map that you can walk through at eye level turns a wayfinding tool into a pre-visit route check, and it fits the stated Metamap goal of building a working copy of real facilities in digital space.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Tokyo Game Show 2026 runs at Makuhari Messe from September 17 to 21, with September 17 and 18 as business days. The venue spans Halls 1 through 11, the International Conference Hall, and TKP Tokyo Bay Makuhari Hall, with a record 1,138 exhibitors. Its browser-based 3D map, Metamap by Boldright Inc., hides a control that is not listed in the standard instructions: pressing the WASD keys drops the viewpoint into a first-person walk around the floor.
The map is Metamap, from Boldright Inc., and its listed controls are ordinary: drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom, right-click or a two-finger drag to swing the viewpoint. Press any WASD key and the view changes anyway. The camera lowers to walking height, movement continues at a constant speed with no dash, and the A and D keys turn you rather than strafe, since there is no mouse look.
At that height, restroom and elevator icons stand out, and the same walk works for tracing a route between booths before arriving. Metamap powers the Nissan Stadium map for Yokohama F. Marinos in the same way.
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