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Rendering transparency and black on HoloLens
HoloLens is an additive display. It can only add light to the real world and not block light to make the world look darker. This means that if you show an image with a black and white gradient the black part will be transparent and the white part will be opaque. Alpha (transparency) does not…
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Blowing bubbles with Shader Graph
I ran into a two weekly Techart challenge by Harry Alisavakis with the theme Watercolors. I decided to participate and use Shader Graph in Unity for doing some soap bubble rendering. Reflections & Iridescence The most visible features of a soap bubble are its reflections and its rainbow like colours. You can see reflections from…
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Augmented Reality avatar on a web page
Augmented reality on the web is happening and it’s becoming easier to create! Below you will find a small test of an avatar model I created online and included in this post. The avatar can be viewed in your environment on ARCore and ARKit enabled devices. ReadyPlayer.me avatar I used ReadyPlayer.me to create a 3D…
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ARCore supported devices; a detailed list of phones & tablets
When you want to use an Augmented Reality app that depends on Google’s ARCore (AKA “Google Play Services for AR”) you will need to know which devices support it. There’s the official list of ARCore supported devices, but that only shows brief names of the supported devices. If you need more details you will have…
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Switched to WordPress
I decided to switch to a WordPress based website to make it easier to manage content and simply make it more modern. I want to add a few of my old VRML projects as YouTube videos. The glory days of VRML are over. I had a lot of fun with it, but now it’s time…