- Project description
- Use case
The solution to interactive, real-time 3D model visualization
Instant3Dhub is a new, intelligent software platform for using “visual computing as a service” solutions in customer environments. Its focus is on end-to-end applications that can be implemented on site, in the cloud and in hybrid environments.
The platform minimizes the costs of creating and operating intelligent applications that build on existing and distributed 3D data. It directly distributes a growing number of scalable, basic visual computing services, such as visualization, tracking or 3D printing, and automatically adapts them to specific end device classes.
Further information can be found at http://instant3dhub.org.
Whether carrying an entire ship around in your pocket or, as seen here, presenting it on a multitouch tableInstant3Dhub makes it possible.
Tablets are convenient to use and make it easier to train new employees or assembly and maintain new equipment.
Shared sessions
Starting with version 2.14 instant3Dhub provides sharing and collaboration capabilities for multi user sessions. Based on a new service, different users and/or devices spread over the world are able to view and collaborate with the same data instantly. A session is shared by simply sending a link or scanning the QR-code instant3Dhub generates. Shared Sessions also provide a rich API to enable application developers to easily distribute their application data.
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Massive CAD data visualization on the HoloLens
No Massive Data on the HoloLens without simplification? Doch! We are extending the existing instant3Dhub/naVis tech stack with a new C++/DX11 backend to enable massive CAD data on the MS HoloLens. We use a set of hybrid rendering techniques to calculate and stream visible elements to the client. The decoupled client synthesises new frames with a controlled triangle budget to maximize the end user experience. The scalable solution adapts to different network bandwidth situations and allows to render models of any size without any simplification on the HoloLens.
Massive cloudpoints
instant3Dhub's rendering technology has been extended to support the visualization of massive point cloud data. With the general ability of combining data from different sources, point cloud data can easily be mixed with massive CAD data enabling a huge variety of applications like retrofit, comparison methods or working with 3D scanning data.
Dataset: Pergamon Altar, Courtesy to CULTLAB3D
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Remote culling
Remote Culling facilitates the visualization of the most complex model data on even low performaning devices. Using a server-side visibility computation only the actually visible geometry parts are loaded and rendered by the clients.
Contact:
- johannes [dot] behr [at] igd [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de (send mail)
The web-based, browser-independent instant3dhub software is scalable and adaptable to a company’s needs and circumstances. Practical applications include spatial design and assembly plans to assist engineers, technicians or fitters with developing new prototypes or maintaining existing equipment. Even customers benefit from the augmented and virtual reality, since the product can be visualized and modified in no time at all. The model-based tracking technology works directly off of the customer’s original CAD database, making time-consuming and interactive data reduction unnecessary.
- The software does not need to be installed on the end device. An updated web browser is sufficient.
- Even low-end devices can be used for visualizaation, since the server does the rendering and simply sends a video stream to the device.
- Building on just the visualization of 3D data in the browser, web applications can easily be developed that can, e.g., look at the data in a specific way or support a specific process step.