Archives for WebGL
Umbra and City of Helsinki Partner to Stream Massive City Datasets to Mobile AR and VR
Helsinki and San Francisco-based Umbra™ have partnered with the City of Helsinki, Finland, to bring a massive, real-time streaming 3D model of the entire city online and viewable on web browsers and mobile devices like the Apple iPad. Multi-Billion Polygonal Models Powerfully Optimized Based on aerial photographs of Helsinki taken in 2015, the city generated […]
SkyCiv Is New Structural Engineering SaaS Software in the Cloud
There is a new cloud-based web-served structural engineering solution, and it looks very good.
SIG: SIGGRAPH 2017 Shaping Up to be Big Show—Preview Talk
Why are VR and AR companies taking root in the LA area? What is the state of the union in portability with graphics APIs so that the most apps can be written to the most platforms? These are some of the core questions Architosh is asking as it heads into the exciting week ahead with SIGGRAPH 2017.
GDC: Khronos Reveals API Updates and New Working Group at Game Developers Conference
Consortium releases Vulkan features, WebGL 2.0 and new OpenXR working group; group hosts series of events for the developer community.
Apple’s WebGPU Standard Proposal—Aiming at Common Access to Explicit Graphics
Apple’s Webkit team is proposing a new industry group to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the web—one that can develop a standard API that leverages modern GPU features.
Cinema 4D maker MAXON joins the open industry standard Khronos Group
Developer of Cinema 4D brings 3D know-how to international consortium for open standards. By joining the Khronos Group, MAXON reasserts its ongoing commitment to support the development of open standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of 3D graphics, games and media on a wide variety of platforms and devices.
Boston area startup OnShape Re-invents CAD—In the Cloud and Platform Agnostic
A startup in Boston backed by MCAD veterans—OnShape—has finally unveiled its innovative fully cloud-based MCAD software, now a public beta, and the news of the unveiling has been rather well embraced, including a spread in the Boston Globe.
CL3VER Announces CL3VER 3.0—Visualization Platform for Interactive Presentations
Cloud based platform adds automatic real-time lightmap technology making CL3VER 3.0 game changing for 3D visualization and project storytelling.
Autodesk CEO Carl Bass Talks Shop: Design Differently with Fusion 360
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, lays out how to Design Differently in a blog posts about Fusion 360 and the How and Why of where Autodesk sees product design.
Tech Soft 3D Releases HOOPS Visualize 2015
Graphics toolkit offers major performance advancements, impressive new visualization capabilities, and tight integration with complementary HOOPS components. HOOPS 3D toolkits used across platforms for leading CAD and 3D professionals applications.
In-Focus: A Look at CL3VER on the iPad—Visualization Tool for Architects
The CL3VER software as a service (SaaS) story continues to unfold as the company recently releases Revit plugin plus long-awaited dedicated iPad app—the app delivers configurator functionality and a whole lot more….
Tech Soft 3D releases HOOPS Communicator 2015
Newest version of toolkit for cloud-based 3D applications features extensive customization options and boosted format and platform support
Product Review: Trimble SketchUp Pro 2014
In this product review Architosh looks at the new Trimble SketchUp Pro 2014, with a particular emphasis on its new BIM worthy features in open schema support and IFC 2×3 export options.
Autodesk talks to Architosh about Octane Cloud Workstation: Autodesk Edition at Amazon
Architosh explores the OTOY Octane Cloud Workstation via Amazon EC2 Instances — a Technology Preview is showing developers and press how the future of the cloud may play out for CAD and 3D
Event: Advanced GTeam Introduction – Gehry Technology shows BIM technology on desktop and iPad
Come see Gehry Technologies’ GTeam in a new free online webinar
