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<p>The latest release of XSeen (V0.7rc1) includes support for a
number of new capabilities to make your VR and 3D experience go
mobile without precluding desktop support
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/features-in-xseen-v0-7-rc1/">https://xseen.org/features-in-xseen-v0-7-rc1/</a>). XSeen is an open
source project that is available on GitHub
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/DrX3D/XSeen">https://github.com/DrX3D/XSeen</a>).<br>
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<p>The camera on your device can be used to provide the scene
background
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/scene-camera-features-updates-to-v0-7/">https://xseen.org/scene-camera-features-updates-to-v0-7/</a>). The
camera feed substitutes for the scene background. This can be
turned on or off with simple JavaScript calls. If the camera is
not in use, you can use a photosphere as the background
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/scene-backgrounds-new-to-v0-7/">https://xseen.org/scene-backgrounds-new-to-v0-7/</a>). Most phones
can take photospheres and there is no need to figure out how to
build a background cube.</p>
<p>CAD support is developing with the introduction of indexed
triangles (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/new-geometry-in-v0-7/">https://xseen.org/new-geometry-in-v0-7/</a>). There is now
asset management (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/assets-and-reuse-new-to-v0-7/">https://xseen.org/assets-and-reuse-new-to-v0-7/</a>)
that is similar to X3D's DEF/USE. These capabilities plus updated
DOM event handling allowed a simple CAD part inspector to be
quickly built (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/XSeen/tests/cadVuR.html">https://xseen.org/XSeen/tests/cadVuR.html</a>).</p>
<p>To facilitate CAD (and NIH 3D PrintExchange) models, a converter
from X3D to XSeen is being developed. The converter was used to
create the XSeen version of the CAD model used in the part
inspector and the molecular models described in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://xseen.org/external-xseen-content-new-to-v0-7/">https://xseen.org/external-xseen-content-new-to-v0-7/</a>.</p>
<p>Work for the next few months will be focused on examples, test
web applications, converters and exporters.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant<br>
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair<br>
President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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