My AR Visualization developers have been using Microsoft Hololens and Oculus Rift hardware to deliver AR experiences for projects for some time and after seeing examples of Angus' & Dmitri's work using FME+ARKit, I explored whether I could use FME to receive and manipulate my AR teams 3D content models into an Apple ARKit project and whether we could package the data in a downsampled form for AWS Sumerian framework webGL. FME was used to modify the 3D model data and prepare a demonstration ARKit project/modules which is loaded to apple devices and stage a data package for AWS Sumerian to explore both endpoints for AR content delivery to a wider audience on lower form factor hardware.

1. Packaging AR content to wider
audience using FME
Steven Cyphers
Tom Fewless

2. GHD
● FME Certified Professional
● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
● FME 10 years

3. FLIGHT PLAN
● Creating Design / Model Data
● Compressing the repetive parts
● Breaking down the Big to
component parts

4. Model
Modeling & Design effort
Create surfaces,
feature elements,
imagery textures,
databases.
FME to Automate
Generate boilerplate
code blocks, break big
models into smaller
model parts
Show the result
Present the data
present
Tried FME AR yet?
An easy way to
prototyping to apple
device is FMEAR
Making the Process EASY[er]
Cascade the models into other platforms
ARkit

5. Spoiler alert!!
ARkit
Model
Modeling & Design effort
Create surfaces,
feature elements,
imagery textures,
databases.
FME to Automate
Generate boilerplate
code blocks, break big
models into smaller
model parts
Show the result
Present the data
present
An easy way to
prototyping to apple
device is FMEAR
Making the Process EASY[er]
FME AR makes the FME-to-iDevice pipeline very simple
ARkit

6. Model data to Hololens AR

7. Model
Making the Modeling EASY[er]
Before we make outputs, we automated some data Ingestion & Assembly Let’s see what
we can do
here.
.dxf .fbx
Fiddly part Fun Fiddly part

8. Model
Modeling & Design effort FME to Automate
Making the Modeling EASY[er]
Before we make outputs, we automated some data Ingestion & Assembly
Automate the
hard parts.
.dxf .fbx
FMEddly part Fun Fiddly part

9. Edat table
Metaprogramming EASY[er]
We automated some code development using the data itself
Automate the
hard parts.
.cs
Fiddly part Fun Fiddly part

10. Making the Modeling EASY[er]
Automate data Ingestion & Assembly; more time to refine AR experiences
Edat table
.cs
Fiddly part Fun Fiddly part
Whoa nice
charts

11. Use buttons in
case of live demo
fails.
Hololens Charts Model Geology Bores

12. Model data to ARkit

13. ARkit
Modeling & Design effort
This is what grabs the
audience’s attention.
FME to Automate
Default project
(wrapper) + 3 moving
parts
Making ARkit EASY[ish]
Default project + 1 config file + 3d content + button icons
Data
.swift
.dae
.json
.png
FMEddly part Fun Fiddly part
.json .dae > .scn
.png icon.fbx

14. Modeling & Design effort
This is what grabs the
audience’s attention.
FME to Automate
Default project
(wrapper) + 3 moving
parts
Show the result
Making ARkit EASY[er]
Here are some tips for constructing a great presentation.
ARkit
Data
.swift
.dae
.json
.png
FMEddly part Fun Fiddly part
Build versions, euler,
scene Y as up,
Default Arkit application

15. Lower form factor of
hardware.

16. Lower form factor
of hardware.
*Now with Wow
that is easy

17. Model data to AWS Sumerian

18. ARkit
Modeling & Design effort
This is what grabs the
audience’s attention.
FME to Automate
It probably uses FME.
Show the result
Pictures are worth a
thousand words.
Share some tips
But an easy way is
FMEAR
last
Making ARkit EASY[er]
Here are some tips for constructing a great presentation.
Data
.fbx
.fbx
.fbx
.fbx
FMEddly part Fun Fiddly part

19. ARkit
Modeling & Design effort
Create surfaces,
feature elements,
imagery textures,
databases.
FME to Automate
Break big models into
smaller model parts
Show the result
Pictures are worth a
thousand words.
third
Tried FME AR yet?
An easy way to
prototyping to apple
device is FMEAR in
2018
Making Sumerian EASY[er]
Breaking larger complex models into smaller components.
ARkit
.fbx
.fbx
.fbx
.fbx
FMEddly part Fun Fiddly part

20. Coordinate space
Sensitive to build parity in a
pipeline (apple, hololens)
Be ready to iterate
Describe the data shown in
your model (metadata)
Augmeted Reality Project
(pitfalls)

21. THANK YOU!
Steven Cyphers
steven.cyphers@ghd.com