This viral vibe-coded game turns Google Maps into a time machine

WenWare places players inside AI-generated, navigable 360-degree historical scenes in virtual reality. Each session gives 60 seconds to identify a scene’s year using a timeline slider and to pinpoint its location on a world map. Five scenes appear per session, including moments such as the Wright brothers’ first flight, the coronation of Charlemagne, and the creation of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Players submit both answers, and the game scores them simultaneously by showing how close the guesses are on a map. Explanatory cards describe what was seen, and scores accumulate toward global leaderboard rankings across modern, medieval, ancient, and mixed-age categories.

"The free browser-based WenWare drops you inside an AI-generated historical panorama, completely navigable in virtual reality, and gives you 60 seconds to do two things: pinpoint the location on a world map and adjust a timeline slider to the correct year."

"Each game session offers five chances to pinpoint the spacetime coordinates of five different scenes, moments like the Wright brothers' first flight, the coronation of Charlemagne, or the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper."

"You look around and analyze the scene like a detective: the silhouette of a vehicle, the cut of a uniform, the shape of a roof, a flag that rings a bell but you can't really place. Then you submit your two answers. First, the year, using a slider. Then, the place on a Google Maps map, overlaid in the lower right corner of the screen."

"The game scores them simultaneously, showing you how close you are to both on a map, with a card on the right top corner that explains to you what you just saw. Each time, the scores will be added to a total, which may get you into the Top 100 global leaderboard in each category: modern, medieval, ancient, or, the hardest of all, any of the three ages."

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