I was very excited to see the release of Unity AR Companion app this week. Object scanning, placement, and integration with unity projects all achievable in one app… at a cost. I was disheartened to see that it requires a Unity MARS license (which to their credit has a free trial period for 45 days)Continue reading “Photogrammetry to Augmented Reality: A How To Guide”
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Double Tap: Powerful AR Interactions
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to create rotate and scale functions in AR. Let’s say you now want the object to do something else, like animate, change colour or explode, you’d add a button right? Wrong! There’s still lots more UX design we can do here. In this post, I’m going toContinue reading “Double Tap: Powerful AR Interactions”
Level Up Your AR UX Design
How’s the pergola going you ask? Great thanks! My parents have bought the materials for its due for delivery next week. I even managed to show them the AR model I made in the previous blog post when I went up to their house for a socially distanced garden cuppa. Except the app didn’t doContinue reading “Level Up Your AR UX Design”
LiDAR contenders: How do they measure up?📏
Several months ago we took an in-depth look at MagicPlan with their updated LiDAR scanning capabilities and compared how effective it was against traditional pen & paper approach. We found that the LiDAR on it’s own was pretty “naff” when it comes to accuracy. Today we are looking at another option available using LiDAR toContinue reading “LiDAR contenders: How do they measure up?📏”
Our CITC11 conference papers were published in a Springer collection
Springer If you have read Alex’s post of 13th Oct 2020 (One of our favourite conferences came to the UK) and Simon’s post of 20 Oct 2020 (How to Survive your 1st Conference…), you are already familiar with CITC (Construction In the Twenty-first Century) conferences* and to some extent with MAVRiC’s commitment to contribute to the learned societyContinue reading “Our CITC11 conference papers were published in a Springer collection”
What you need to know about getting started with Augmented Reality in Unity
During the Christmas break my dad mentioned to me that he was thinking about getting a pergola for his garden in time for the summer. Now that everyone is bound to their homes at the moment, I said it was a good idea, he also offered (suggested) that I do the design for it sinceContinue reading “What you need to know about getting started with Augmented Reality in Unity”
User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…
We’ve heard tons of bad stuff in the news recently to the extent that we are now on the verge of questioning the existential need for, and/or losing our faith in, the demonising nature of media; we really long to hear some good stuff, we want to believe news doesn’t need to be bad toContinue reading “User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…”
MagicPlan: Now with added LiDAR 🧂
Your measured surveys are taking too long aren’t they? You want surveys complete in the time it takes to drink that cup of tea the client has made – lucky you! that’ll take the edge off the monotony – and you want to head back to HQ safe in the knowledge that you’ve (definitely) notContinue reading “MagicPlan: Now with added LiDAR 🧂”
How to Survive your 1st Conference…
If you love public speaking as much as I do – it’s lots, lots and lots – you can imagine how uneasy excited I might be at the prospect of presenting to a room full of seasoned, distinguished academics over on distant shores. Well this WAS the prospect presented to me! By none other thanContinue reading “How to Survive your 1st Conference…”
One of our favourite conferences came to the UK
We were all sat in a café when I found out that we were going to attend CITC11. It was amazing to think that all the research we had done over the year would make it into a conference that has some of the most prolific speakers in the construction industry. I went on theContinue reading “One of our favourite conferences came to the UK”
A look inside industry perceptions of augmented reality
New technologies will always be fascinating; they challenge the way we do things and how we experience them. This fascination is usually, in my case anyway, accompanied by grandeur visions of a technological experience so intensely fun and productive; of a marketing device that sells your business for you; of tech that could achieve ‘fullContinue reading “A look inside industry perceptions of augmented reality”
Utilities aren’t ready for augmented reality, and here’s why…
The world beneath our feet is a complex one (or a messy one depending on your opinion of it). Either way, it seems like with the technology we have at our hands, it’d be easier to make sense of it all? Wouldn’t it be great if we could hold up our phones and see allContinue reading “Utilities aren’t ready for augmented reality, and here’s why…”
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