WorldMonitor
A financial institution engaged us to turn the main corridor of their office into more than a walkway. WorldMonitor is an interactive motion graphics installation that runs the full length of that corridor as one continuous video wall.
Not a screensaver. Not a loop. A live map tracking the world’s economic news, changing what it surfaces the moment someone walks past.
A living map, lit like a city at night
At rest, the wall tells world time. Every major economy sits on a dark world map, each one showing its real local clock, ticking in step with the actual time zone. Behind the labels, thousands of small lights pulsate across the land like a satellite view of the planet after dark. For a financial institution whose day is shaped by London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore, the wall makes that whole global clock legible in a single glance.
Earth Satellites
WorldMonitor also watches the sky, not just the ground. A three-dimensional Earth turns slowly at the centre of the wall, rendered smoothly in WebGL and drawing real orbital data (TLEs) straight from CelesTrak, so every satellite sits where it actually is right now. Thousands of them hold their true positions, grouped by constellation, Starlink, OneWeb, Iridium NEXT, GPS, the ISS and more, each tracing its own orbit path, with flight paths arcing over the surface and a marker that quietly finds the viewer’s own location.
Interactivity
The corridor is the interface. As someone moves along it, WorldMonitor senses them and shifts the wall from world time to the day’s economic headlines, surfacing the stories that matter to the people who work there. Keep walking and the wall keeps answering, cycling through fresh headlines as the day goes on. The corridor never shows the same view twice. Headlines can be dragged into any arrangement from a touchpad on the wall.
Autonomous
Behind the scenes, data is pulled from a server throughout the day and sent to the wall automatically. The content stays current without anyone touching it.
Once installed, it simply runs.
Tech Stack
The front end renders in real time on the GPU: a single-pass WebGL particle system drives thousands of animated city lights, composited beneath live time-zone clocks and draggable country labels. A wall-mounted webcam feeds a motion-detection layer that switches the wall between world time and the day’s headlines on presence. On the back end, a scheduled service aggregates economy and world headlines hourly and serves them over a private, authenticated endpoint, so the installation runs self-contained.
Attention is the hardest thing to earn. CRITICA helps brands earn it through motion graphics, video, and experience design that people actually stop to watch. Singapore-based, working across Finance, Healthcare, Technology, Hospitality, Tourism, Oil & Gas, and Renewables.
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