leveraging mobile 3d web apps for design collaboration @ cic 2010

Design Collaboration with Mobile Applications

James Rodden, Senior Software EngineerÜbermind Inc

Mobile Devices

4G Networks

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Social Networks

Trend Convergence

Collaboration

Collaborating with Mobile

NVIDIA® RealityServer®

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RealityServer ® 3.0with iray ®

• First 3D, server based, scalable software platform • Thousands of concurrent interactive 3D users• Massively parallel compute and data management• Access from any device

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SIMULATION

CLIENT

Applications

Architecture Design Home Design Product Design

Apparel StylingEngineering & Manufacturing Maintenance & Training

Prototyping with RealityServer/iray

Marketing Stills with RealityServer/iray

RealityServer for Maint, Repair & Training

Mobile Applications

Application Demo

How to Build•iPhoneOS SDK•Target iPhone & iPod touch &/or iPad(http://developer.apple.com/iphone for SDK details)

•UIKit for user interface controls and image display•Foundation for strings, URLs, memory management, network communications, etc

•GameKit for local bluetooth communications

How to Build•Create SOAP requests (either XML or JSON) to communicate with Reality Server.

•Initiate client session and configure model:•Specify model•Set image size/resolution•Select GPU vs CPU rendering•Configure camera position in 3D-space•Select various material shaders•Set position of configurable elements (doors, etc)

•Server responds with confirmation of each change and provides rendering URL which returns fully rendered image.

How to Build

RealityServer ® 3.0with iray ®

SOAP messages (XML or JSON)

XML/JSON confirmation response

http://renderURL

rendered image

Image CachingRotate Object (reposition camera)

confirmation

http image request

• Cached images stored to disk• Displayed in response to user interaction

Conclusion•Disruptive trends combining to allow amazing new collaboration possibilities

Contact

Come and visit us at the mental images booth for more information.