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
This week we held our first Customer Focus group. We invited a handful of our early customers into our office to talk about all things VentusAR. This provided us with a chance to really engage with our customers. The afternoon started out with an open invite to the ‘Meet the Engineer’ session. George and his
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
This week saw Linknode embark on an exploratory trade mission to Finland, supported by Scottish Development International (SDI) and Panliska / ScotWindFin (http://www.panliska.com/), accompanied by Stephen Fox. As a first-time visitor to the country having a local coordinator ensured that we got the maximum benefit, with seven meetings in just three-days total time out of
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
As the Commonwealth Games roll into Glasgow there are a lot of changes at the Linknode offices. It is time for an update on what is happening outwith VentusAR app news. Internally, we have welcomed Calum McRae to the team in the Sales and Business Development role. Calum has been meeting customers, preparing meetings and
We thought we would take a few features of VentusAR and provide some detail on how they work and what they can be used for. The second feature we would like to cover is the ability to use Reference Markers, to have confidence that the wireline and camera feed shown on the iPad screen are correctly aligned.
