The release of Umajin 3.1 brings with it our new multi-user editing feature.  You can now collaborate with your colleagues directly within the Umajin Editor. The multi-user system allows people to work simultaneously on the same project.  A list of users who are currently logged in to the project is displayed in the top right corner of the Umajin Editor.  Any time a project member makes a change to components...

The Umajin Application System has some big upgrades for version 3.0 including a new look and feel. Umajin Editor   We have gone through the whole application and updated the user interface design of our Umajin Editor to look better on higher resolution displays. The design has then followed on to our Umajin Editor Lite as well. All component and action icons have been updated as well to give a...

Umajin powered the real-time IOT dashboards for PwC connected solutions at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We were also showing off the Umajin Spatial technology that is being deployed in market with the leading hotel brands LINK. There were three custom-built bays loaded with sensors for different vertical markets which were all easily connected up to the Umajin real-time platform. In the amusement and entertainment bay we were showing some...

ARIA was a good opportunity to catch up with others working on AR/VR and to present at MIT about some of our discoveries building co-spaced AR and VR applications. We have found some surprising side effects of having multiple people interacting while collaborating in the real world and in the virtual world. Click for the PRESENTATION LINK We are using an amazing high-speed tracking system from our partner PhaseSpace which allows...

Umajin has a new LLVM frontend. This is integrated alongside LLDB and using our QT creator IDE we can now perform step by step debugging and watching variables in JIT compiled Umajin code. We can even step from Umajin code into the underlying C++ engine! Our new front end adds some amazing language features to Umajin taking advantage of lots of new capabilities in the recent versions of LLVM, bumping...

Umajin has new PBR lighting model. Physically based rendering or PBR is a shading model in computer graphics that seeks to render graphics in a way that more accurately models the flow of light in the real world. Basically, you get to decide the lighting information for each pixel, its shininess, its roughness, its color, its occlusion. The underlying shader models the materials microsurfaces and how they reflect, absorb and...

Umajin demonstrated a multi-person co-spaced VR environment at the combined ISMAR/AWE show in Munich. There were three different demos, in this specific demo users had to triage inbound events occurring in Hong Kong. The two users were huge in scale compared to the city and could see incoming events as orange markers. When they picked a marker the details of the event would be transferred to a tablet. From the...

Umajin showed off its data presentation and dashboarding layer, digital agents, 3D animation and VR rendering in this interactive experience, generated from the underlying data for each of the WPP BrandZ international reports. This event was focused on the new top 100 China brands report and was powered by BrandZ, Semaphor, Umajin and the new Intel NUC.  The experience allowed visitors to the House of Lords to go through a...

It seems like every major technology vendor is delving into the augmented and virtual reality space, claiming to have the latest and greatest solution for the market. Unfortunately, these technologies may not live up to expectations when it comes to enterprise use — whether it’s platforms like AWS Sumerian, Microsoft Visual Studio, or hardware such as the HoloLens and the upcoming Magic Leap. Right now, gaming is the area that...

See article on Information Management (more) We are moving toward a digitally-enabled world, where the lines between real and digital are blurring. As the digital world becomes an increasingly detailed reflection of the physical world, it creates fertile ground for new business models and ecosystems. To embrace a digitally-enabled world, businesses need to digitally enable and transform every aspect of their operations. And they know this, with 55% of IT...