Last week, VentusAR was featured as an app spotlight on the Xamarin blog. In this video interview, I talk through what VentusAR is and how the different features of it work. I show example of the Fly Through, My View (wirelines) and Gallery working to allow us to explore and review a previously set up project.
One of the new features we introduced in VentusAR 2.0 was the ability to produce a PDF file to download. The creation of a document makes it easier to share and save the visualisations created by VentusAR. As I have just been out to a viewpoint with VentusAR, I thought I would share the process
This week (6-10 October 2014), Linknode are in attendance at Altanta for the Xamarin Evolve conference. After two days of training, the conference proper is under way with sessions on the new features and services of what is coming up from Xamarin, now and over the next few months. I thought I’d capture some of
In my news feed this morning there was an article showing the evolution of Ordnance Survey maps. I was struck by the graphic showing the evolution of Ordnance Survey mapping. To summarise the changes over the years: colours have been added, contours are clearer and text less script (see below): (read the full article from
The backseat of the car, wind, rain, hail, even trouser pockets. It’s a tough world out there for the hardware that runs VentusAR. We take the same kit out into the field as we supply for our customers, so we’ve a fair bit of experience of what works well, and what is less effective. In
We are pleased to announce the release of VentusAR v2.0 for Android, iPad (and associated portal updates). This is a significant upgrade and contains capabilities and feature requests that are designed to meet industry needs – making project assessment faster, more dynamic, better integrated and more efficient. We recommend updating the new version of VentusAR to take advantage of
Hands up who watched the Apple live event last night. I watched the live blog feed from the apple site, so I got the important points without having to watch 2 hours of Apple exec’s announcing new features. My interest was primarily about whether Apple were going to release a 12 inch iPad or not
VentusAR, like many visualisations systems, uses a bare earth terrain model. This gives some advantages (compliance with SNH guidelines being a big one), but provides a few challenges too. One of the biggest challenges is that you can end up producing visualisations that don’t look right because there are trees between you and the turbine.
Continuing in our posts about the new and important features of VentusAR, the next feature we would like to cover is static renders and their uses. A render is a single shareable image of the visualisation you are seeing on screen. A Better Screenshot tool Pre VentusAR 1.8, we recommended that users took screenshots of the app running,
Today we released VentusAR 1.8 for Android, iPad and portal. We recommend updating the new version of VentusAR to take advantage of the new features that have been introduced. For iPad and Android users this release includes many new features including: Gallery: Enabled Calibration tools Gallery: Added single-frame renders section to gallery Project: Show PDF
