2017
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Now that we've seen how to move a fake cursor across the screen, let's talk about how best to use this technique to implement a demo mode for your Forge viewer-based application. Something I mentioned last time was that – for our purposes – this code needs to be fairly adaptable, whether for different views, […]
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A request came up in a recent meeting talking about future features for Dasher 360. We want to be able to leave Dasher 360 running in "kiosk mode", whereby if left unattended for some time it starts to run through some canned activities, showing off some of the tool's capabilities. The mode should be interruptable: […]
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Here's a quick one to wrap up the week. Some time ago we decided that Dasher 360 didn't need to provide the option for users to do an unconstrained orbit: the default mode of turntable orbit would be perfectly adequate, especially as we deal mainly with building models. So it was that I created a […]
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I had a lot of fun presenting some of my WebVR-related research at the Expanding Immersive Design conference in Zurich, late last year. The recording of my session – where I demoed v1 of Vrok-It – is now online: It was very different conference for me: it was held at ZHdK - the […]
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We've crossed a pretty big milestone in the plans for my family's round the world trip for the latter half of 2017: we've actually booked flights. Here's how the latest location tracker looks: You can compare this with the more speculative plan from last time – which still holds good for most areas – to […]
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A few days ago I was reminded of a topic I've highlighted in a number of presentations I've given over the last few years, but have never actually talked about on this blog. The closest I came was probably in this post. Many people don't realise Autodesk was an early innovator in the VR space. […]
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Some of you may remember this post, which talks about the ability to export to Navisworks from Revit to bring room information into the Forge viewer. One of the side effects of using this technique is that there's a bunch of semi-transparent room boundary geometry in the resultant model, which can make navigation a little […]
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As a follow-up from Tuesday's post, I wanted to hide the title bar of the dialog showing the legend for our surface shading feature. It turned out to be really easy: we're deriving from DockingPanel and we simply need to override the initialize() method and choose not to create either the title bar or the […]
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Our VR room received its finishing touches yesterday, when our furniture was delivered. Even before being officially ready, the room has seen some more usage. A group of our Enterprise Support managers gave it a try recently after one of their meetings in the Neuchatel office, for instance. Tomorrow I'll host a "drop in" morning […]
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I've been mocking up some UI additions for Dasher 360, today. A big chunk of my time was spent working out how to make flyouts work for vertical toolbars (something I'll address in a future post, if there's interest), but I've just been fighting another problem that's probably not really an issue for anyone using […]