"Augmented and Virtual Reality – Ready for Design and Engineering" Cyrille Fauvel, старший технический консультант Autodesk.

1. Kean Walmsley Cyrille Fauvel
Platform Architect & Evangelist Senior Manager, ADN MEI
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VR & AR
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4. Gartner Hype Cycle 1995

5. Gartner Hype Cycle 2016

6. Some definitions
Virtual Reality Immersive, synthesizes “complete” reality
Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Google Cardboard
Augmented Reality Non-immersive, overlays info onto reality
Google Glasses, Atheer, Epson
Mixed Reality A variant of AR integrating 3D content
HoloLens, Meta 2, Magic Leap
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7. VR at Autodesk
WebVR Forge Viewer, stereo panos, Play
WebGL
Game engines Autodesk LIVE -> Stingray
Unity3D, Unreal Engine
Native code Autodesk VRED
OpenGL, Direct3D
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The Metal
Distance

8. Autodesk VRED
• High-end visualization, commonly used in Automotive
• Collaborative features based on internal Forge service
• Local & remote design review via avatars
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9. Autodesk LIVE
• One-click workflow from Revit -> interactive 3D
• Targets Autodesk Stingray
• LIVE 1.1 beta supports Oculus Rift & HTC Vive
• Backed by a web-based content preparation service
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10. Forge Viewer
• Version >= 2.12 supports WebVR
• Enable the WebVR extension in your app
• Icon appears WebVR-compatible device found
• Oculus Rift, HTC Vive & Google Cardboard
• WebVR extension demo
• Currently a “first person” view
• Working on turntable navigation for “widget” viewing
• Will make it suitable for use in Vrok-It
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11. Autodesk Play
• Creates interactive 3D presentations on the web
• No programming needed
• In-browser, node-based editor
• Targets VR via WebVR
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12. What can you try at AU?
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• Future of Making Things Pavilion
• Design in VR | Stingray
• Factory of the Future | Stingray
• Collaborative Design Review | VRED
• Autodesk LIVE demo area
• Publish from Revit to Stingray | Autodesk LIVE
• Experience a Revit model in VR | Stingray

13. AR & MR at Autodesk
• HoloLens is the first wide-scale AR device available
• Developer edition shipping in US & Canada
• Soon shipping in France, Germany, UK, Australia, NZ
• Provides both native code (Direct3D) and game engine
support (initially Unity3D)
• Unity uses C#, very familiar for .NET developers
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14. Experiments with HoloLens
• Model preparation easily the biggest AR/VR pain-point
• UV mapping, materials, texturing & polygon optimization
• A week’s worth of effort for a typical model
• Today we’ll focus on two experiments
• Kean side-stepping the problem: Dancing Robot
• Cyrille focusing on it: Forge -> HoloLens
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15. Dancing Robot
• Created for a “Design Night”
• Autodesk Switzerland’s 25th anniversary party
• Based on existing Unity model prepared with Fusion 360
• Added scaling, positioning, control and collaboration
• Complete Unity project and code available on GitHub
• http://github.com/KeanW/dancing-robot
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16. Forge -> HoloLens
• Experiment to deliver
AR/VR content
• UWP or Unity3d
• Export to FBX and/or glTF
• Support for Prism/Protein material and Metadata
• Support for scaling, positioning, and explode
• Main challenges:
• Polygon simplification/optimization
• Material support
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17. (OSS = Object Storage Service)
Workflow

18. Forge -> HoloLens - roadmap
• Prism/Protein shader for rendering fidelity
• Explode algorithm
• Automatic project publication pipeline
• Complete project and code will be available on
GitHub
• http://github.com/cyrillef/ForgeArVR
• http://github.com/cyrillef/extract.autodesk.io
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19. Other MR devices are coming…
• DAQRI Smart Helmet, Meta 2, Magic Leap
• The Smart Helmet will be on display in Expo Hall
• Ruggedized, runs Unity on Ubuntu
• Targets construction-focused applications
• Interested in trying our HoloLens demos?
• Come along to the breakout!
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