Florent Germain’s Post

I realize I've been a bit quiet on here lately! The projects I've been working on in my spare time aren't quite ready for prime time, but hopefully I'll be able to share more at some point. In the meantime, many of you have joined my network, and I thought it might be convenient to bring all the AR concepts and demos I've created over the last few years into a single video. Check out the sizzle reel and let me know what you think! Included in here is a snippet of something new I've been experimenting with... Let's catch-up after PTO. Wishing everyone an amazing summer! ☀️🌴 #AugmentedReality #AR #Innovation #Tech #Creative #SizzleReel #ObjectTracking #Vuforia #XR #MixedReality #ComputerVision

Yesterday, Dyson revealed their CleanTrace™ app feature, which adds #ar to your vacuuming experience. I had a lot of questions, but the app is only due in June. So I burnt the midnight oil to recreate it with Vuforia, a PTC Technology. In particular, I was wondering how they deal with various heads of different width, the rotation motion, or how does the system knows when to start/stop tracing the path on the floor. I'll have to wait to answer those(as it seems only compatible with their latest gen of vacuum), but I was pleasantly surprised to see such an app come to life, after Daniel Beauchamp 's similar proof-of-concept using a Quest 3 made it popular (link in comments). In the meantime, I went with my own implementation, to see how to deal with edge-cases (it's always the edge cases...): - Area Target of the place for persistent, robust indoor localization - Model Target of the (3D scanned) vacuum head (Fluffly Optic) - Smartphone stuck to the arm with rubber-bands 😁 - Line-renderer in Unity to draw the path behind the head. - Occlusion mesh for the head and the vacuum cleaner arm (attached to the camera) I did a first test late at night (that's why the brush is not rotating, let's not be the guy vacuuming at 2:00 AM) and I was happy to see that it's already somewhat working correctly ! Path is properly drawn, it persists even when the head is not in view, and you can have automatic detection of vacuuming based on its tracking. Plus, if you already have an Area Target of your place, you don't even need a LIDAR-enabled device for this to work. Looking forward to try the real deal with the Dyson CleanTrace™ at some point in the future, and props to Daniel Beauchamp to conjuring this concept into reality ! #technology #ar #xr #augmentedreality #concept #arkit #arcore #unity #vuforia #objecttracking #tracking #scan #3dscan #digital #digitaltwin #digitalinnovation #mixedreality #computervision #technologyinnovation #futurenow

Real-time collaboration in Onshape Vision with AVP Spatial Avatars 🚀 🚀

We just released Onshape Vision for Apple Vision Pro. This will bring your collaborative design reviews to a whole new level.

We're hiring for an ALM specialist out of India. If you have experience in implementation of ALM solutions in general, and Codebeamer in particular, Neha Shah would love to talk to you!

I've recently picked up indoor climbing, and I'm not really good at it... I've taken lessons and it helped a lot, but I'm still struggling to read the paths, and often find myself in the wrong position mid-climb... 🧗♂️ "I wish I could look at the wall and see how to climb this blue one", I thought. Then looked at my phone. "Ah!" 💡 🧠 1️⃣ The main challenge was how to record the climbing animation. This is solved by Move AI technology and the Move One app. With my single phone, I was able to record myself and others and extract the animations automatically. No need for tweaks with a good capture (start with the T pose!). 2️⃣ Walls were either scanned with Polycam for Model Target, or with the Vuforia, a PTC Technology Creator App as an Area Target. This enabled to capture the whole rooms and all walls at once. 3️⃣ Then, it was just a matter of aligning the animations and targets in Unity, with some slight logic to trigger the animations. Now, this is probably still too process-intensive for an indoor climbing gym like mine, where paths are changed very often... But for natural spots, definitely works! Move AI made the most intensive task go away. I was wondering about publishing a short article on how to replicate that, as I did for my AR dinosaur (link in comment). What do you think ? #poc #technology #ar #xr #augmentedreality #unity #vuforia #objecttracking #tracking #scan #3dscan #digital #digitaltwin #digitalinnovation #mixedreality #computervision #technologyinnovation #futurenow #climbing

It’s a wrap ! Our All-Hands week in Barcelona came to an end. It was beyond all expectations. It’s been a blast to meet again with colleagues from all over EMEAI. Technical Sessions about the Digital Thread and soft skill trainings were part of a rich agendastill leaving plenty of room to get together for drinks, sport and team building activities at Campus Belloch Châteauform' This was also a great opportunity to have a larger team gets firsthand experience with Industrial Augmented Reality, through a variety of headsets and Vuforia products. Amazing demos cooked by the team 🙌 Many thanks to everyone who contributed in organisation, logistics and content - you made this a memorable event; and a spécial shoutout to Katrin Rupprecht for the tremendous work and Richard Heinrich for the gorgeous pictures. #ptc #event #allhands #offsite #digitaltransformation #industry40 #workshops #ar #xr

Brought a very interesting device with me for my week in Boston! The Lynx R1 is a pass-through device, allowing mixed reality through the cameras feed - you might have seen this already on the Quest 2/3/Pro, and obviously Apple’s Vision Pro. But this one is special to me, as it gives me complete access to the camera frames 😉 If you’re in the Seaport office this week and would like a demo, just ping me! Lynx Mixed Reality Stan Larroque Marc Piuzzi #ar #xr #mixedreality #lynx #headset