The sand model, at scale.
HoloMap builds your own terrain into a shared VR planning environment — so a briefing happens over the actual ground, at true elevation, with everyone seeing the same picture.
In service with the Indian Armed Forces.
Bring an area of interest and the planning problem you run today.
This is for you if
If none of these are true we are probably not the right call yet, and we will say so.
- Planning happens around a physical model that takes days to build
- Participants are in different locations and see different pictures
- Rehearsing a plan under different conditions is not practical
- Terrain and plans are too sensitive to leave your network
What a planning cell is judged on.
Every participant reasoning about the same ground, at the same scale, at the same time — including the ones who are not in the room.
A plan can be run through under different conditions and timings before anyone commits to it, which is where the flaws in it actually surface.
A sand model consumes days, materials and a room. A scenario consumes a headset and can be revised between sessions.
Under the hood
Ask the harder questions.
Planning cells ask the same four questions after the demo.
Your survey data, not a game environment.
The rehearsal is only worth running if the ground is the real ground. HoloMap builds the environment from the GIS and elevation data you already hold, at true scale, so distances, dead ground and lines of sight behave the way they will on the day.
- Built from your own DEM and imagery
- True elevation and true scale
- Lines of sight computed on real relief
- Classified sheets never leave your network
- Update the terrain when the survey updates
- No dependency on a commercial map service
A planning cell that is not in one room.
The sand model works because everyone stands around the same object. HoloMap keeps that property when the participants are in different stations — one session, one shared state, each person seeing the same model from their own position in it.
- Multi-user sessions across sites
- Shared annotations and markers
- Each participant free to move independently
- Roles for briefer and observers
- Session replayed afterwards for review
- Headset or large-screen participation
Air-gapped, on your own hardware.
Planning happens where the network is worst and the classification is highest. The platform installs inside the perimeter and runs with no outbound connectivity at all — no licence check, no telemetry, no cloud dependency to fail at the wrong moment.
- Fully offline installation
- No outbound calls of any kind
- Runs on hardware you procure and control
- Updates delivered as signed media
- No per-seat phone-home licensing
- Operates on isolated networks
An Indian OEM you can hold accountable.
The platform is built and maintained by Idea Infotech, not integrated from a foreign stack. That matters at procurement, where the questions are about escrow, export control and who is answerable when something needs changing.
- Indian OEM, GeM-listed
- No foreign licensing trail in the stack
- Source escrow arrangements available
- Changes engineered by the team that built it
- Trained on your terrain before handover
- Support inside the security perimeter
Your survey data, not a game environment.
The rehearsal is only worth running if the ground is the real ground. HoloMap builds the environment from the GIS and elevation data you already hold, at true scale, so distances, dead ground and lines of sight behave the way they will on the day.
- Built from your own DEM and imagery
- True elevation and true scale
- Lines of sight computed on real relief
- Classified sheets never leave your network
- Update the terrain when the survey updates
- No dependency on a commercial map service
What HoloMap does
Built from the survey data you already hold, at true elevation, rather than a generic environment.
Participants join one session from different locations and share a single planning picture.
Run the plan forward at speed to see how it unfolds and where the timing breaks.
Rehearse the same plan at night, in fog, or in conditions that change what is possible.
Zoom from a table-top overview to standing on the ground, in the same session.
Plans are saved, compared and revisited, so a briefing builds on the last one.
How it is deployed.
Inside your estate, with nothing leaving it.
Headsets, session server and scenario library installed inside your own estate.
No external calls, no telemetry. Terrain, plans and session records never leave the network.
Procured through GeM, built by an Indian OEM with no foreign licensing dependency.
Let's talk about the ground you plan over.
The kind of terrain you plan over, and how your briefing runs today. Walk us through it on a call and we can show you what that becomes as a shared model.
HoloMap — common questions
Your own GIS and survey data. HoloMap renders the actual ground you are planning over at true elevation, rather than approximating it with a generic environment — which matters because the questions people ask of a sand model are almost always about elevation, line of sight and route.
Yes. Multi-user sessions across sites are a core capability, and every participant shares one planning picture rather than reconciling separate ones afterwards. Roles can be assigned within a session so participants see what is relevant to them.
Yes, and that is the standard deployment. Headsets, session server and scenario library all run inside your estate with no external calls and no telemetry, so terrain, plans and session records never leave your network.
It is versioned and kept. Scenarios can be compared, revisited and built on, so a briefing starts from the last one rather than from a blank model — which is the practical advantage over a physical sand table that has to be dismantled.