Augmented Reality

AR Product Demo

• Created for an online new products release conference.

• Used Solidworks, Keyshot, and Blender to process existing 3D models.

• Created QR Codes that linked to the models.

• Hosted the models on Poly’s AWS.

• Built, tested, and deployed in 6 days.

• iOS + Android compatibility. (different QR codes)

BACKGROUND

Poly was going to hold an online product-release conference in early 2020. Questions were raised within the company about what would be the best way to showcase Poly’s work-from-home products on a Zoom call. My manager informed the company leadership that there might be a few things in my bag of tricks.

CONTENT

Augmented Reality

3D model processing

QR Code creation

Server management

TECHNOLOGY

Keyshot

Solidworks

Blender

Bitly

QRCodeMonkey

AR Kit (iOS)

AR Core (Android)

AWS

Bluehost

Cyberduck

Augment Reality Product Demo

Rapid Augmented Reality Solution Deployment

This project sounded simple at first – grab a few existing product models, make them AR ready, put them on a public server, generate some QR codes that link to the server – until I was told I had only 6 days. I ran into a ton of unforeseeable issues, such as some models being humongous in size and complexity with thousands of parts, some surfaces having wrong normals (you can see through it from one side, the wrong side), the cloth material looking horrendous on iPhones, the link shortener’s algorithm insisting that our links contain malware and blocked our server…

Poly P21

PROCESSING THE 3D MODEL

The 6 models I received from Industrial Designers were extremely complex with thousands of subitems, including internal parts such as PCBs, batteries, antennas etc. I cleaned up all the unnecessary parts in Keyshot, rebuilt the surfaces that had wrong normals in Solidworks, reduced polygon counts in Blender, then reapplied the material with performance-friendly ones in Keyshot to reduce size.