Is there finally any available product by Bentley with VR and or Mixed reality support?LumenRT VR didn't materialize and even Synchro XR is no longer available or here https://www.bentley.com/en/products/product-line/construction-software/synchro-xr
From nice marketing videos users get impression that these products actually exists and ask if they are available.
Products like Blender are building VR right into the editor which is the initiative I had hoped to see from MicroStation years ago. That’s one side of the coin but the other is providing VR content to the client. The two clear giants in this field are Unity and Unreal and I fear that Bentley are not doing enough to facilitate the workflow in bridging the gap between MicroStation and these two industry leaders. It is disheartening to see Pixyz and Datasmith support other AEC packages but not MicroStation. I feel like Bentley have to reach out and make these plugins happen for MicroStation too.
As limited as it is, I’ve had great success with FBX exports and Unity but my number one irritant at the moment is the way that the exporter simply names all unique geometry groups - “Mesh, Mesh 1, Mesh 2, etc” rather than naming the geometry groups by their unique material names. My one encounter with ArchiCAD FBX files was that they did name their geometry groups by their material names and that made customising Unity properties bullet proof when it comes to iterating on a design and adding new geometry over time. Whereas MicroStation FBX files will randomly swap what is represented by “Mesh, Mesh 1, Mesh 2, etc” as the design is being developed and that in turn causes havoc with the unique geometry customisations that inevitably need to be done in Unity.
And as a side note, I think it would be tremendously helpful to also have a more modern glTF file exporter rather than rely on the older OBJ and FBX file formats.
Hi Oto,
We have been using LumenRT VR for a number of years now and starting using Synchro XR for construction sequence within the Microsoft Hololens.
Where did you get it?
Hi Andrew,
I would recommend that you suggest gltf or any other format you want added to Microstation in the Ideas forum and try and get as many votes for it as possible.
Regards
Paul
I found a link to the Microsoft store download for SynchroXR... not sure if it the download/install actually works outside of Bentley's site, but worth a shot. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/synchroxr/9nv4b1g7q0sf?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
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