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The Honda e is the company’s first all-electric vehicle, and we were proud to be part of the launch of this distinctively designed car that is chock full of new technology. 
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Using algorithms derived from neuroscience, AI research company Numenta has achieved a dramatic performance improvement in deep learning networks, without any loss in accuracy.
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I'll stop saying Deep Learning is off topic - it's now too much part of graphics and all fields!!
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In simple words. With real-world examples.
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Firstly everyone, sorry for the lack of updates recently. I will endeavour to get back to more regular ones! Here is one of my favorite articles to mention. I find there is a lot of confusion on AI and all things related, in particular the algorithms and what works best when. This is an outstanding simple and clear reference
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Find out how Audi is increasing its return on investment by repurposing real-time assets from its digital showroom.
Audi has collaborated with 4D Pipeline to create an automated process on top of that, which converts the marketing asset into Unreal Engine for use in their dealer configurator. The resulting time savings have been phenomenal, reports Thomas Zuchtriegel, Head of AR/VR Data, Process & Technology at Audi: “The conversion now takes minutes instead of months,” he says. Just 17 minutes, in fact, without any human intervention.
What this effectively means is that whenever their vehicle data changes—for example, if there are new floors mats, or the headlights get a facelift—because the process is continually converting the data behind the scenes, the Unreal Engine file gets updated automatically, at no additional cost. The result is that the dealer configurator is able to show the latest version of the vehicle almost immediately.
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Lovely writeup about our (and others) work with AUDI, highly recommended reading. Ping me if you would like to meetup the week of October 14th in Munich for Epic Build event or the exciting AWE (Augmented World Expo Europe).
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AWE returns to Europe for the fourth year 17-18 October in Munich, Germany. Don’t miss the world’s leading spatial computing (AR/VR/MR) event series, what Forbes calls “the most essential AR+VR conference and expo,” in a unique market.
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One of my favorite events. Looking forward to meeting you there. Ill be blogging about the event and making a highlights writeup. Ping me to meetup at the event!
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Brief video showcasing a few features of vGIS Utilities (http://www.vgis.io/). vGIS Utilities is the most advanced augmented reality solution for Esri GIS
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Really nice to finally see something like this. I worked on something very similar but it was more on the AEC side. Always made a lot of sense to integrate with the GIS software. Good move by ESRI/VGIS.
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The Khronos 3D Commerce Exploratory Group looks at standards and guidelines for the production and distribution of real-time 3D products.
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This is a great initiative that 4D Pipeline and many of our customers are part of (Dassault Systems, Microsoft, Unity, IKEA, and others). From: Kronos - With the growth and adoption of mobile, Web and immersive platforms, 3D is poised to grow as a new shopping medium that product manufacturers, retailers, marketing and advertising platforms use to showcase virtual products for end-users to better understand a product online prior to purchasing, and to build brand loyalty after purchase. Retailers have been experimenting with 3D product representations on the Web, and in Virtual and Augmented Reality (together termed ‘XR’) applications, to enable users to view and interact with products and explore virtual showrooms. The results have been exciting, but thus far not actionable in a scalable, repeatable way. Key players in the industry are now exploring how to scale production and achieve broad distribution for interactive 3D content to represent their products virtually. This includes streamlining processes for creating real-time 3D representations of products, so they can be experienced realistically and consistently across all platforms and devices. This initiative would aim to create standard specifications and guidelines to help align retailers and manufacturers seeking to create virtual 3D products, technology providers building tools to produce 3D content, and technology platforms seeking to distribute and display virtual products with optimized workflows throughout the industry to minimize production and distribution costs.
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Compared to the HoloLens we first saw demonstrated four years ago, the second version is better in nearly every important way. It’s more comfortable, has a much larger field of view, and it’s better able to detect real physical objects in the room. It features new components like the Azure Kinect sensor, an ARM processor, eye-tracking sensors, and an entirely different display system.
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Hololens has remained one of the most powerful enterprise products for the enterprise. We've (4D Pipeline) implemented multiple Hololens projects for Automotive, Apparel, Footwear, and Aerospace customers. Hololens2 addresses the weaker points of Hololens1. Specifically Field Of View (FOV) and hand/gesture interaction. From what i've seen Hololens is ahead of Magic Leap at the moment in multiple areas. Will be interesting to see what Apple eventual does in this space and how each of these compete. Unlike Magic Leap, Microsoft is smartly targeting enterprises. Use cases like collaborative training and support are great for factory and service and support use cases but we've also used Hololens for Marketing events (seeing roof racks and related items on a car for example) and other design use cases. Super excited to see this released finally.
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Adobe today announced that it has acquired Allegorithmic, the French company behind the Substance tools for creating textures that are widely used by AAA game creators, as well as visual effects artists, animators and designers. Over time, Adobe will bring many of Allegorithmic’s technologies…
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Excellent acquisition by Adobe. A company and play that totally fits them. Adobe has always wanted a 3D photoshop and in many ways this is what Substance is (in some ways). Artists and Designers (Adobe's target market) love Substance. Good move - together with Dimensions this is a good fit for Adobe.
(And i've also previous done a lot of work with Adobe).
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VRX - The world’s leading senior level VR industry event: Where virtual reality business gets done
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See you at VRX!
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Have a look what we unveiled at GTC Europe 2018 in Munich, 10th-11th October. More info: https://www.gputechconf.eu
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Once a conference focused almost exclusively on computer graphics, now GTC is all about AI and Deep Learning. Computer graphics is only ~5% of the conference. Still always nice to see realtime raytracing with RTX. Epic's Unreal Engine looks amazing (running RTX) - everytime i see it my eyes don't believe it. The event for me is still a great meetup, most of the automotive folks are here and it's a great location to t-up dozens of meetings. Self driving cars are getting crazy good. AI crowd learning is beyond scary. Deep learning is perfect for GPUs. Here is the keynote:
See you at AWE next week!!! Ping me for a discount code!
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Given the developments over the last year in AR/VR technology, glTF and USDZ are going to be the most important formats for 3D models. In fact, we think glTF and USDZ are now essential to most companies focussed on AR/VR. As a result, formatting your 3D models to glTF and USDZ enables a lot of …
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No question about glTF and USDZ being superformats, they are indeed! We've implemented half a dozen glTF viewers and publishers. Similarly for USDZ including connecting glTF to USDZ. We are seeing many big brand manufacturers moving to these formats as well as graphics tools and hardware companies using these formats. glTF makes a great base for a visualization format and with some extensions can hold everything that is needed. Contact me to find out more or to share thoughts on how we can help with your glTF, USDZ, WebGL, or AR needs. PS I'll be in Munich for the next two weeks at AWE and GTC Europe.
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The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactiv
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I always love attending Siggraph. Such a fun event, great content, and loads of excellent meetings! This year in Vancouver, we met with many of our customers including AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, InstaLOD, Turbosquid, Adidas, IKEA, and others. Without doubt the most impressive announcement was realtime raytracing on a single card, thanks to NVIDIA DXR RTX technology (first in Quadro's and now in Geforce). This was showed off with Epic's awesome configurator done for Porsche. You can see some of this at: 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z85aPqqJzs0 (this can all done in realtime) Since then Nvidia has announced RTX for Geforce cards. Crazy to imagine that this will probably be "the norm" in a few years. Also nice to see from NVIDIA is that MDL Materials SDK being made open source (minus the Distiller). Also nice, here is the latest HoloDeck AMD ProRender seems to still be going well. GLTF everyone seems to like. (we've done many projects now in this space). Of course, Magic Leap was mentioned but everyone is still generally speaking under-impressed. That said, there seems to be a race to get hands on them and try them out. This is one of the best reviews i've seen: Main feeling from the show is Unreal is unreal! Epic and Unreal were all over the place, everyone integrating with them. For VR, StarVR had the show with the best headsets with a wide FOV. Some highlight summaries:
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Posted by Adel Ahmadyan and Liangkai Zhang, Software Engineers, Google Research The state of the art in machine learning (ML) ha
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Soon everything around us we will be able to identify using AI/DeepLearning. We've been getting better and better at doing this with photos but with 3D it is harder but we also have more information to make the decision (easier). Nvidia and Google seem to be leading this effort.
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COVID-19 is ravaging brick-and-motor retail, but what impact will it have on ecommerce, supply chains, and other aspects of the AR/VR industry?
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Sorry readers for the lack of updates. Covid-19 is indeed keeping us busy! This was an interesting read on how Covid-19 may affect AR/VR. What I've been seeing is that in a way, we have all been going through the 7 stages of grief (https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-grief#7-stages ), not just in our personal lives but also in our business dealings. First, we saw people denying anything would change; then tweaking (bargaining) with budgets, and so forth, all the way to what we are now seeing - acceptance. And they will not ever be the same. From a business point of view this means that people are going to be: - working from home more often - traveling less - buying online
Which means that many of the tools that we develop for our customers in manufacturing, automotive, apparel, and computer hardware are now more relevant than ever before. Many of the tools we developer are for digital design collaboration and or sales and marketing experiences. Many use AR and VR.
Regardless, this tech and these tools have gone from "something that we need" to something that "urgently NEED".
The entire Product Lifecycle is going to be forced to be more digital than ever before. This means designing and building products (cars, shoes, furniture) as well as selling and marketing them online.
If you scroll through my blog, you will see past articles about how we use AR for companies like BMW and MINI, and VR for companies like AUDI.
We are now even seeing product launches in VR - here is an example of an Asics shoe launched in VR: https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-31-asics-meta-sneakers-vr-launch.html?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=internal&utm_source=dl&guccounter=1
I look forward to sharing more.
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The original article was published on my Beyond PLM blog. Earlier this week, PTC announced about the acquisition of Onshape, the company started by a group of CAD industry veterans including former Solidworks founders and employees in 2012.
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Excellent overview form Oleg Shilovitsky on the Onshape acquisition by PTC.
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One of the best and biggest Automotive events
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Another incredibly successful #IAA2019 #Frankfurt - creating an amazing #automotive #AugmentedReality experience for BMW & MINI - personalized, fun, realtime 3D, #sellmore #AR #VR #iOS + #Hololens
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The rise of virtual and augmented / mixed reality technologies provides a natural next step for companies using design and visualization tools, but there is still some uncertainty on the best uses and methods. So, what do we know so far and what’s missing to fully integrate the technologies for the best ROI?
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VRX is a great event that we often attend and speak at. In this Panel, Tyler from 4D Pipeline speaks with industry experts on their opinion and experiences with these technologies.
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Google AI has revealed its new deep learning-based approach that can estimate depth from videos where both camera and subject are in motion.
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We seem to be getting more and more involved with AI/Machine-Learning for 3D tasks for our customers.
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All you need to know on Azure Kinect, the newest multiple purpose sensor announced by Microsoft and that is the heir of the Kinect v2
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Super smart move by Microsoft. Microsoft shrinks Kinect to being a $399 cloud powered PC. More at:
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Adding thrill to every ride Time is a precious thing, but most of it feels wasted when you are on the road. At that moment, time is bridged, passed, jus
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Congrats to AUDI for taking an innovative step to fund such a startup. To be honest, when i first saw this - i thought it was a terrible idea(!) - i thought isn't (bad) VR bad enough (to cause motion sickness) - how terrible will it be if it is in a car. However after watching the video, and see that they are making a VR experience to match the movement of the car - then in theory - if there is no delay (hard) - then this could actually reduce motion sickness in a car. Very Cool. I really love this concept. Also won the most innovative award at CES. #Disclaimer, AUDI is a client of 4D Pipelines
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German car maker Audi was quick to see the potential of VR and has been experimenting since the early days of VR’s resurgence to see how the tech could be used to enhance the car buying experience. Having introduced VR showrooms into dealerships as early as 2016, the company now has some 1,000 VR deployments …
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FINALLY - we can share some of what we are doing with AUDI - #Automation #VR #Unreal #raytracing #MakeItFasterBetterFunner!
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This episode was supported by insilico.com. "Anything outside life extension is a complete waste of time". See their papers: - Papers
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Lovely example of smart(er) (curious) AI
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REAL-TIME ray tracing is coming to Atomic Heart. Check out the stage demo from NVIDIA’s Editor's Day event in Cologne to see real-time ray tracing i
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Pretty sexy results from the RTX cards with realtime raytracing!
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AWE EU 2018 starts in two weeks (October 18th). This is an excellent event that we attend each year (in both Europe and the US). Filled with the latest and greatest on Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. It's also a great place to meet automotive and manufacturing users who need such technology. Contact me for a discount code on the event. Next week (the week before AWE) is GTC Europe (October 10th), also in Munich. 4D Pipeline will be at both events. Contact me to meet up!
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4D Pipeline will be at both events. Contact me to meet up! Also feel free to Contact me for a discount code on AWE EU. See you in Munich!
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Honor and a pleasure to work with our partners Saddington Baynes and customer Honda. Big Congrats to Saddington to get this launched successfully! It was a wonderful opportunity to work with them and their outstanding team.
Our role was to help build the webgl engine, a fast, web, realtime 3D Car Configurator, with interior and exterior. Runs on all devices and browsers. UK models and EU models, with config options and variants.
Platform: All browsers and devices (including mobile).
Props and Congrats again to Saddington Baynes and Honda for this fantastic release!!
https://www.saddingtonbaynes.com/work/honda-e
https://www.honda.se/cars/new/honda-e/overview.html#configurator/hub