2017
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Today I was asked to add the ability to place a custom logo onto an instance of the Forge viewer (in my case for Dasher 360, of course). It seemed like an interesting one to share, as I'm sure others have the same requirement. There are probably lots of ways to solve this – for […]
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The Forge team (many of whom I worked with back when I was part of the Autodesk Developer Network organisation) have created a new developer blog focused on all things Forge. You'll find a lot of the usual suspects who contributed to the Cloud & Mobile DevBlog (in fact that particular blog's content has already […]
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There's a lot happening in the world of WebVR at the moment. Today's big news is that Chrome 56 has now been released for Android, bringing WebVR support to Daydream phones (other devices to follow). This is an important landmark on the journey towards ubiquitous WebVR-capable devices. At some point we'll be getting a desktop […]
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Yesterday Carl Bass announced he would be stepping down as CEO of Autodesk. The news came with the 9am Pacific press release, followed quickly by Carl's email to employees (reproduced here). I'm pretty sure that only a handful of people knew about this in advance: the rest of us were completely stunned. Autodesk has had […]
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On Friday we had our first external visitors to the VR room at Autodesk Neuchatel. Jose and Erich came across from Amstein + Walthert, an engineering firm headquartered in Zurich. Jose had reached out to me – we've been in contact a few times, over the years – as he'd read about the VR room […]
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I have some big news. My wife and I have decided to take our three children out of school for a semester and travel around the world for six months. We'll be leaving at the beginning of July and spending a month in each of North America, South America, the South Pacific, ANZ, South Asia […]
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Yesterday I finally took the time to work on one of those tasks that had previously never quite bubbled up to the top of my priority list. Since I've been working on Dasher 360 I've put up with using the developer tools built into Chrome for debugging. While these are pretty good – especially with […]
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Autodesk turned 35 years old, today. To commemorate this event, Shaan has suggested we all wear our oldest Autodesk shirt. I know I have an R14 ARX T-shirt somewhere, but I can't seem to find it (it was always about 5 sizes too big, so it may well have been thrown out). The best I […]
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Today is a good day. After long months of preparation, the VR room at Autodesk Neuchatel is up and running! We're still waiting for a sofa and chair for waiting guests to relax in, but otherwise all is finally ready. Here's a quick video I shot to show you around the room. I […]
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In the last post we talked about a recent optimization to Dasher 360, where we implemented a point cloud rather than individual SVG-based markers for our various sensors. As mentioned, last time, this was pretty straightforward to get working, but did add some complexity: rather than having seperate DOM-resident markers – which can easily have […]