{"id":1224,"date":"2022-05-10T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osiris.itabc.cnr.it\/scenebaker\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:14:26","slug":"aton-goes-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osiris.itabc.cnr.it\/scenebaker\/index.php\/2022\/05\/10\/aton-goes-massive\/","title":{"rendered":"ATON goes massive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are amazing news<\/strong> regarding ATON framework<\/a> and large\/massive 3D datasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first one is that ATON supports multi-resolution<\/em><\/strong> through an OGC standard: Cesium 3D Tiles<\/a><\/strong>. This was under the hood for the last few years: check out the reference paper<\/a> explaining more in detail such choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can now load one or multiple tilesets<\/strong> in a 3D scene, without any restriction in terms of geometry or textures complexity. This is possible thanks to the integration of an open-source library developed under NASA AMMOS project<\/a>. Here is a sample of multi-resolution dataset in an ATON scene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second is that such standard allows amazing integrations <\/strong>with other pipelines, services and tools. For instance it is possible to load 3D tilesets hosted on Cesium ION<\/a><\/strong>, providing a token. Here is a sample of entire Boston city (multi-resolution dataset), streamed from Cesium ION and explored through Hathor <\/strong>(the official ATON front-end) right in your browser, through any device:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This enables ATON 3D scenes to combine geospatial datasets<\/strong> available on the platform with standard glTF models or panoramic content from collections. More in general, integrations are possible with any service that provides datasets in this standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATON offers immersive VR presentation since 2016<\/a> <\/strong>(cardboards, 3-DoF and 6-DoF HMDs). The combination of WebXR + multiresolution is fully supported<\/strong>: that means ATON allows to explore large, massive 3D datasets using HMDs (e.g. an Oculus Quest<\/em>) or cardboards without any installation (soon dedicated paper on this). Furthermore, it is possible to query all geometry, annotate, measure… at runtime! Check out a few examples in this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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