The document discusses the integration of augmented reality (AR) with data through Safe Software's FME platform, highlighting its value in visualizing and analyzing data within real-world contexts. It explains how to prepare and transform data for AR using FME and FME Data Express, allowing users to experience location-based, up-to-date models. The presentation also emphasizes the continuous advancements in AR technology and its applications in various scenarios, ultimately aiming to enhance decision-making through better data visualization.

1. Data in the Real-World:
FME AR and FME Data Express

2. Meet the Presenters
Dmitri Bagh
Scenario Creation Analyst
Don Murray
Co-Founder

3. Agenda
● Intro to Safe Software & the FME Platform
● Why Augmented Reality?
● How to Bring Your Data Into Augmented Reality
○ Demos: FME AR
■ Simple model
■ City Assets
■ Model viewing
■ Advanced visualizations
● Live Q&A

4. Our Mission
To help you maximize the value of
data.

5. Augmented Reality allows anyone to
experience and understand data.

6. No one supports Data like Safe Software
CAD
GIS
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AR / VR
AI / ML
INDOOR
MAPPING
GAMING

7. Safe Software:
Makers of the
FME® Integration
Platform
25+ Years of Solving Data Challenges
FME Desktop
Build & Run Data
Workflows
FME Server
Automate Data Workflows
(on-premises)
FME Cloud
Automate Data Workflows
(cloud)

8. FME Mobile Apps
Access the power of FME
wherever you are.
● FME AR
● FME Data Express

9. Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) uses the real world as a backdrop
for computer generated elements.

10. Why Augmented Reality?
There is great value in bringing your data into AR:
● It’s easily available through phones and computers
● See invisible objects (like underground assets)
● “Experience data” in the context of the real world
○ See design problems and discrepancies
○ Rich look at the data - realistic or totally artificial
● Technology is getting better and better.

11. Augmented Reality: State of the Art
The technology is still developing. Some issues include
● GPS precision
● Indoor navigation
● Model stability
● Blending with real world

12. Do more with your data through AR
We can make better decisions if we can visualize what
our data actually means in the real world.
This becomes possible with FME AR.

13. How to Bring Your Data into
Augmented Reality

14. FME can be used to transform your
data into AR format no matter what
format it comes from.
● Bring your data into workbench
● Transform it to 3D if necessary,
set styles
● Save it to FME AR
Data needs to be
prepared for AR

15. Spatially-aware AR. Let’s try it.
It is simple with an FME workspace to place
an object at any location on the planet.
Watch video
Try it yourself

16. Location-based AR on demand
What if we need AR data that is:
● Up-to-date
● Relevant to a particular location
● Available in the field
● Created and and delivered on-demand

17. FME Data Express
sends the current
location of a
device
FME Cloud (hosted FME Server)
transforms the data into FMEAR file
and sends it back to the device
FME AR opens the
AR file and
augments the
reality
Automation

18. Prepare AR models on demand
Set Up
● Prepare the workspace that includes:
○ Reading data in any format(s) around submitted location
○ Transforming (2D to 3D, setting styles, scaling);
○ Saving as an AR model.
NO CONVERSION AT THIS POINT
● Upload the workspace to FME Cloud.
Workflow
● Create the model in FME Cloud for the location sent by mobile device through FME Data Express
● Stream the model to FME AR app (or just open pre-created models).

19. DEMO. Source Materials
● City Infrastructure in shapefile,
geodatabase, DWG, geopackage…
you name it.
● Style information in MS Excel
● 3D models in SketchUp, Collada,
KML, OBJ etc.

20. Workspace

21. FME Cloud
(hosted FME Server)

22. How it works

23. Results
The model is relevant to the current
location and was generated from the
most recent version of the original
dataset
Watch video

24. Model viewing. The power of FME
● Explore safely
● Scale 1:1
● Viewpoints -
geospatial
bookmarks
● Draping viewpoints
Watch video

25. Model viewing. Explore what’s coming
Watch video

26. Advanced visualizations
Combine the tools and power of
cartography and 3D visualization.
Merge thematic mapping and realism
of the 3D models.
Watch video

27. More Scenarios
View air quality Walk through the
models of the future
Find your way
indoors
Annotate city
assets
Build a photo
gallery

28. Don’t just look
at your data,
experience it.
You can be more productive
and focus on the work that
matters when your data is
visually layed out in front of
you and easy to understand.

29. Resources:
Blogs:
Visualizing Data with Location-based Augmented Reality
Preserving the History of Amache Using AR & Virtual Worlds
5 Ways to View Your Data in Augmented Reality
FME Free Trial
safe.com/trial
Or talk to me directly
dmitri@safe.com

30. Download our Free
FME Mobile Apps
Get started in 2 steps:
1. Download Free Apps
a. FME AR iOS & Android (WIP)
b. FME Data Express iOS & Android
2. Download the FME Platform
Get a free trial at safe.com/trial

31. Thank you!
Questions?
Ask them in the
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For a free trial of FME visit safe.com/trial