About Google ARCore SDK .

This is a new feature of Google team and is named ARCore.
They tell us about the ARCore :

Introducing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experimenting with it right now. 

This feature work with : Android Studio , Unity and Unreal.
If you want to test it you can find the source code on github .

News: Blender 3D version 2.79 - the new Blender 2.8 Branch.

Today I tested the new Blender 2.8 Branch from version 2.79 of Blender 3D software and is working well.
The new branch come with the new render Eevee and many of old 2.79 features:

• Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.
• Grease Pencil: New frame interpolation tools, per-layer onion skinning.
• Alembic: Improvements to compatibility, stability and support.
• User Interface: Initial support for reusable custom configurations, automatic DPI scaling.
• Twenty Three new and several updated add-ons.
• And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!

Next is a screenshot of this release:

The vvvv tool environment.

The development team of this tool tell us:
vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

I download the archive and install this tool easy.
If something is not found into your computer then will see into setup interface.
The steps to install this tool:

• download archive from official website;
• donwload and unarchive the addons into the vvvv folder;
• use setup executable to fix the instalation;

If you got this error: "the program can't start because d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer" the use this download- DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer from microsoft.
To run examples, demos or games just try girlpower folder.
Let's see installation steps from youtube:

Blender 3D addon with the base muscle system.

The ManuelbastioniLAB is an open source and free addon for Blender.
The goal is to create a scientific and powerful 3D humanoids editor with the result of the research and released as a free and open source advanced addons for Blender 3D software.
The last features is the advanced rigging for the base muscle system.
Let's see this into next video from official youtube channel:

The ShaderPlay Studios company.

About this company we can find out more on the official website:

ShaderPlay Studios is a software development company operating out of Playa Vista, California and founded on January of 2014 by Scott Bean, a veteran graphics engineer with 20 years of experience in the 3D software and gaming industry. The primary focus of ShaderPlay Studios is to give artists and engineers the tools they need to streamline their pipelines, iterate faster and ultimately create more meaningful digital content.
This development company come with tree software:

• NodeFlex is a very powerful, programmable node-based data generator designed to greatly simplify any tedious, redundant and error-prone data authoring tasks.
• ShaderFlex is a new breed of stand-alone code-based HLSL shader editors developed to take full advantage of DirectX 11/12.
• RenderFlex is a real-time viewer for ShaderFlex users to distribute and showcase their shader creations without giving away any of their proprietary source code or assets.

You can see more videos on the youtube official channel:

News: New Unity 2017 beta version release.

This new release is beta 2017.2.0b2 version release from Unity development team.
Is full with new features like:

• learn feature into started application;
• introducing Unity Package Manager;
• Services: Performance Reporting Service with support for native crashes on Android;
• Timeline support for Avatar Masks on Animation Tracks;
• Video with pixel aspect ratio support for non-square pixel;
• WebGL come with  linear rendering to WebGL 2.0;
• OSX: support for Retina in macOS standalone builds;
• 2D: with Tilemap;
• Editor: fix scripts editor, script compilation times and  splitting your project's scripts;
• Graphics: Implemented Display-P3 color gamut support  for iOS and macOS;
• VR: Updated Oculus to version 1.14;

...and more
 You can read one full page of changes and features from new Unity - here.

A-Frame web framework for Virtual Reality.

As originators of WebVR, the Mozilla VR team developed A-Frame as a web framework for building virtual reality (VR) experiences.
The core of framework provides an declarative, extensible, and composable structure to three.js.
You can find some example with this framework here.
The blog of the development team and users come with useful articles.
A-Frame supports most VR headsets:

• Vive
• Rift
• Daydream
• GearVR
• Cardboard
• ... and can even be used for augmented reality

The framework come with aframe inspector the online tool for visual tool for inspecting and tweaking scenes.
The Sonar Systems youtube channel come with some video tutorials about A-Frame VR framework:

The Visual Components software.

Is a complex software application with many tools for engineers  and not just for them.
The team development tells us:
There are four main applications for the Visual Components software: an engineering tool, a sales tool, a robot programming tool and a platform for building your own simulation solution.
The parts of this project come with this issues:

• Layout Configuration 
• CAD Compatibility 
• Project Ready Deliverables 
• Simple Robotics 
• Component Modeling 
• Advanced Robotics 

With Python API, which is available in all Visual Components 4.0 products we have a good platform for teaching, automating and post-processing robot programs.
For training , courses are collections of lessons you need to visit this link.
See the video from official youtube channel:

You can download this application from here.

The Shdr online tool for GLSL (ESSL) .

The Shdr is an online GLSL (ESSL) shader editor, viewer and validator.
This tool is written in CoffeeScript and WebGL.
The GLSL editor supports many advanced features like syntax highlighting, history, line count and highlighting, error display and bracket matching to name a few.
You can test this tool at shdr online tool.
Using the top menu you can use local storage, raw code download and sharing, switching between vertex and fragment shader editing, insertion of snippets, change the 3D objects.

Your PC’s performance with Razer Cortex.

If you have a Razor device then you can test this soft and get US $10 off to enjoy at RazerStore website.
Razer Cortex brings enhanced gaming performance, recording and streaming gameplay, and the ability to find the best gaming deals to a single screen with all your games just a click away.
This soft improves your PC’s performance by managing and killing processes and apps you don’t need while gaming.
Use this link to download.

News: Clara.io 3D and High Fidelity.

The High Fidelity is a free social VR platform open to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and desktop users.
You can access Clara.io's model library in High Fidelity, you must first download the free program from their website. 
You can use  the Clara.io 3D model library with the High Fidelity Marketplace.

The online 3D tool - Clara

This website come with a great online tool for development and 3D artists.
The website tells us about the features and tools we can use:
Powerful Modeling Tools
Sub-object editing. A ton of mesh tools.
Subdivision surfaces.
Modifiers/operators.
UV editing. Optimized performance.
VRay Cloud Rendering.
Huge photorealistic material library.
Easy advanced materials.
Flexible lighting setups.
Blazing speed.
Import/Export Anything
Over 30 common 3D files formats supported. FBX, Collada, STL, OBJ, Three.JS, Babylons.JS, STEP, IGES, 3DS, Blender and more.
Multi-Platform
Chrome. Firefox. IE11. Edge. Windows. Apple OSX. Linux. Android. iOS.
Modern Interface
Familiar UI.
Responsive workflows. Undo/redo. Drag/drop. Context menus everywhere.
Scripting, Plugins + REST API
Customize. Extend. Mashup. White Label. And even create your own Custom 3D Viewers.
Easy Sharing + Embedding
User galleries. Lots of free 3D models. WebGL/Three.JS and VRay Cloud render embedding. Interactivity via jQuery.
Collaboration + Versioning
Simultaneous multi-user editing. Always on versioning. Per-user permissions. Review tools.
For me: I liked the exporter to JSON file.

Your 3D plants with ngPlant

ngPlant is a Free Software project and you can download it from here.
The ngPlant modeling tool and ngpshot utility are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The great part of this softwarecome for developers.
They can use 3D API-independent library to use generated plant models in their 3D applications, or to create plant modeling plugins for different 3D modeling tools.
Also the software libraries (libngpcore, libngput and pywrapper) which may be used in another projects are distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

Your city to 3D with Esri software.

Your city can be put into 3D environment using Esri City Engine.
This software come for Windows , Linux and MacOS X and come from ArcGIS Software
I tested the free trial demo with Windows SO.
This free trial is just for 30 days andafter that you will need to contact your local Esri office.
When you download the trial one webpage come with one authorization number.
This is provided to you to deal with installation proces.
The idea is great because can help many people.
I deal with street features and come sized functions.
You can use also textures, and generate tools, objects to edit and many format maps files.
If you want to build your city from simple gamer, business, virtual maps and enviroment then is a good choice.
You can take a look to see how is working.

Google Earth VR - virtual reality free.

Google Earth VR lets you explore the world from totally new perspectives in virtual reality. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over the Grand Canyon, or walk around the Eiffel Tower

This is a free virtual reality application. The goal is the 3D space of most known places from world. The application can be found here.

System Requirements - minimum:

• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
• Processor: Intel i5-6400 equivalent or better
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 Fury equivalent or better
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 4 GB available space

 

This application deal with images into 3D.

AwesomeBump is a free and open source program designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion, metallic, roughness textures from a single image.
The AwesomeBump software is totaly written in Qt cross-platform application framework.
This application come with some features like:

• convert from normal map to height map,
• convert from height map (bump map) to normal map,
• extract the bump from the arbitrary image,
• calculate ambient occlusion and specularity of image.
• perspective tranformation of the image,
• creating seamless texture (simple linear filter, random mode, or mirror filter),
• generate roughness and metallic textures (different types of surface analysis are available),
• real time tessellation is available,
• saving images to following formats: PNG, JPG,BMP,TGA
• edit one texture which contains different materials
• add some grunge to your map with grunge texture.
• mix two bumpmaps togheter with normal map mixer.
• and many others, see our videos on YouTube

The official page can be found here.
You can see video tutorials about this application: here.

OpenVR for VR hardware under linux, windows and osx.

Is working with windows 64/32, linux 64 and osx 32. The github tells us about this development:

OpenVR is an API and runtime that allows access to VR hardware from 
multiple vendors without requiring that applications have specific 
knowledge of the hardware they are targeting. This repository is an SDK 
that contains the API and samples. The runtime is under SteamVR in Tools 
on Steam.
Documentation for the API is available in the wiki: 
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki/API-Documentation
More information on OpenVR and SteamVR can be found on  

http://steamvr.com

Blender 3D - addon Screencast Keys tested.

Today I tested the Screencast Keys with the last version of Blender 3D - version 2.78.
One great addon can be used to share your work over 3D Blender community.
This addon will show the keys and mouse actions into Blender 3D.
The Blender 3D addon can be downloaded from here and then just put into your Blender 3D path: blender-2.78-rc2-windows64\2.78\scripts\addons.
Now next step is to enable it from: User Preferences > Add-Ons > 3D View.
Restart your Blender 3D software to make setting.
The setting can be allow with start under right panel by using key N and will find the Screencast Keys area.
You can also just start working by press the keys: Shift+Alt+C.
The addon is very useful for most blender users.

Tested: Sheep it Render Farm.

Today I used this render farm named: Sheep it Render Farm and they tells us:

What is a render farm?

A render farm is a group of computers connected together to complete a large task. In the case of 3D rendering, most of the time, a render farm will split frames of an animation to multiple computers, so instead of having a single computer who works for 100 days you can have 100 computers who will work for 1 day.

I tested this render solution and result come with free registration, free project adding and free rendering.
First the CPU and GPU from my laptop are supported.
You can selet only the GPU or CPU or both.
You can render project and will have credits and this is very important.
Why? Because you need to wait if you don't have credits - mode details FAQ.
You can take a look at status.
If you take a look at this status and the all result you can see how fast is working: 3316 frames per hour, time to complete render: 6h52m
I tested with one 250 frames with 60 frames/s Blender 3D file.

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Blender 3D for web.

I don't know if I told about Blender 3D software and web but seem the last demo has great.
So take a look at this website.
All of this demos was make with Blender 3D software.