well hello and welcome again to edison
light globe's
video i'm phil greenwood and today i
know we've been a
long time between videos uh this is a
very complicated one we're doing at the
moment and also
my camera operator here broke his foot
on a skateboard
so we've been a little while we've tried
a couple of times
this has technically been difficult so
bear with us we'll see if this one works
but
this is a special video this is a bit
different to what we normally do this is
a video that we're doing in response to
our experiment with augmented reality
now for the most part when we describe a
product
we create the product in 3d we
build the product we understand its
scale and size
and its surface and its color and then
we set it up in the photographic studio
here and we would
photograph the product on a neutral
background usually a dark background
it's isolated on its own with nothing
else in the shot
it's designed in a lighting sense to
show surface
shape color texture those things
and also on a website all those products
as a catalog
all have to end up the same size box so
there's no scale
indicated by the images that they are
basically just the same
shape inside a box essentially so
despite the fact that within the product
descriptions we put
specifications for size that is
width length heights all those things
it seems that a lot of people have a
real problem trying to ascertain
just how it is that they imagine
a product of a particular size in their
environment so
what augment reality or augmented
reality does
is give you our 3d file for you to put
into your room and view it on an iphone
an android phone an ipad or a tablet
those mobile devices all have an
application now which gives you
access to augmented reality a little bit
like the way
pokemon go worked so
what we'll do first is we'll show you
the basic
system how it all works probably the
first thing is
we use a common application we haven't
built our own application
we believe that the common application
in this case augment
is an application that should be used by
a number of manufacturers so therefore
instead of downloading a whole lot of
different applications for different
manufacturers
you may end up just using augment and
there should be that there's a lot of
different applications or a lot of
different
suppliers of 3d files that you'll be
able to view on that application so
having said that the first thing we need
to do is download the
application augment the instructions for
that are in the
description under the video
now what i've also got to do is record
the iphone screen to show you what's
happening
and now i'm going to set that up now and
then i'll get back to you when i've
finished
doing that. So first thing we need to do
is to click on the little image that we
supply and that will be in a
tab on the product page or we'll send
you a file but essentially
you click on the file and you end up
with this screen
that shows you
the product in 3d so you can spin it
around you can have a look underneath
you can go in close a whole lot of
things
the important thing here is there's a
little button or a big button that says
view in your space
so the first thing you've got to do
obviously is push that
view in your space it will open in the
augment app
and it'll ask you to place the
item the 3D item on a flat
surface it will find a flat surface for you 
in this
case it's our table and we'll push on
that
and we'll see pop up really quickly
the actual steampunk bunker lamp
banker lamp 3d file now
what's really handy is i've actually got
a real one
here that's not turned on um i'll just
go and turn it on
there you go so we've actually got a
real steampunk blank lamp
and its 3d counterpart now you can move
these around in
what are what is essentially two
dimensions of the three
the third dimension being the distance
off the table
you can't actually reset once you've put
it on the table that's a fixed axis but
every other
dimensional axis you can change so we'll
see here now
the real steampunk banker lamp
and its 3d model next to each other
and you'll see it's almost sitting on
the table it's pretty much sitting on
that surface
but you'll notice that it shows terrific
scale
and dimension oops
but it doesn't show really good
surface texture you'll see the
difference here the real brass and our
visualized brass is not anything like
the same but
the idea of this system is it's giving
you
scale
so there we have it the first
demonstration
so for the next model what i'm going to
do is explain
how we do other products now the augment and
augmented reality 3d itself
it all seems to be based on three
dimensions
however one dimension fixed and the one
dimension fixed seems to be
building up from a surface so placing
objects on a table placing objects on
the floor
all seem to work really well for us
this light the desk lamp perfect
for wall lights and pendants hanging
from the ceiling
it took us quite a while to work out how
that was going to work because
the 3d modeling seems to work from the
ground up
so we came up with our own solution
which is to
have a placement piece that will allow
you to place uh
like a blank sheet of paper in 3d on the
floor
and the lights will appear at their
appropriate height above the floor
so with that in mind or bear that in
mind when we
show you our wall light which we can
place on the floor first and then see it
hopefully stuck on the wall
um firstly what you've got to do is
click on the image on the
on our website of the wall light product
that will take you again to the augment
app and the augment app will show you a
3d file i'll just download that file so
it downloads into the app
our 3d file this is the same for all of
our
3d files they need to download first
once it's downloaded you'll see
a little finger thing but you'll see
you've got to move it around
but you can see on this one the fact
that the product has this little yellow
label at the bottom now that is the
placement label
that's what we've called it anyway so
the first or the next thing we do is
we'll click on the view
in my space it will open in the augment
app
and it'll ask you to place this now
for a wall light you want to place this
on the floor
next to the wall the next thing you need
to do is
to turn that around just spin it with
two fingers and then drag it back
and make sure that the place on floor
pad
is actually placed on the floor you can
see that
now we'll just click off anywhere and we
should be able to see
on the wall
our wall light i'll go around this side
so you can see it
so this is quite a large wall light and
we'll see if we look very carefully and
see that it is
stuck to the wall but what it does do is
show us
scale and dimension a little bit of
color
rough color but you can see that again
next to
an actual example of one of those wall
lights
um but you can see for instance that
wall light is placed over
a door whereas this wall light yeah
look we could move it but it probably
wouldn't fit over the door
and again the way we move it around is
just drag and
drop or drag that surface we can
move it there if we want to see this
if we want to see this one a little bit
higher
we have no way of moving it up and down
with our finger so what we'll do is
we'll replace the item we've got to go
back to that
product look at that
there it is we'll replace it but this
time
we'll put it onto this uh little wooden
shelf and the little wooden shelf is
a flat surface it's like a table and
even though it says place on the floor
we can place it right on the corner
there make sure you line it up
so this is lifting the entire model
a little bit off the floor and when we
look up we'll see that the light is now
quite a bit higher
in fact it's at about the height of our
other lamp
and so this gives us a way to adjust
the the model the 3d model we can adjust
the 3d model's height
by simply using a flat surface against
the wall
and that seems to be the only way that
we can
describe a wall light for the purpose of
augmented reality but it works fine
if you have any problems let us know now
the third product that we want to show
you is
one that we probably get asked about the
most the one that's the most difficult
to interpret at least dimensionally for
our customers and that is our
Billiard Table now our billiard table
lights are designed to be
decorative over domestic
tables uh we do make longer versions we
make four light versions we make
bigger plumbing pipe versions and we've
just recently made a very large one
now problem are or problem is that billiard
tables vary in
size and scale and billiard table rooms
also vary in scale
this is where 3d modeling
will be really useful for a billiard table
light now i've got to find the billiard
table light
i'll go back to the um oops
i'll go back to the product page louie
it's not showing me the product page so
no geez there it is
okay we click on the um the image that
is the billiard table
product and what we're going to do is
instead of placing it on the table which
we could do
we're going to place this one on the
floor you can see the surface there
showing us the floor we'll spin that
around again
in a in a in a way that suits the table
and we're going to place it because we
know that line there is straight we're
going to place it
under the middle of the table because we
want our light to be in the middle of
the table so that's actually sitting
underneath the table in the middle now
when we look up what we want to see is a
billiard table light
hung if we can
over the table to show us scale
of this product or this light over the
top of our table now you'll notice that
it disappears when i get too far away
but as we move around
we can show just how big that is
and what it looks like in the room now
it's probably for a billiard table
this one's probably a little bit high
and so we probably would have a
different model
that suits more accurately a billiard
table specifically we're
again working on these in prototyping so
we will get to that at some point and
we'll also show different shades
different brass colors various options
but certainly let us know if there's an
option you want to see
i'm going to turn that off so
that's essentially a description of
how augmented reality is supposed to
work
how we can use it to describe our
product and how
anybody anywhere with a portable device
can use it in their environment to
assess
one of our products for its scale
i'm waiting for that to finish i'm
hoping it records the screen
but uh but essentially if there's a
product that we have on our website that
isn't yet currently
exported for all augmented reality
certainly let us know
if there's a particular shade that you
want on a particular light
let us know uh if there's a piece of
hardware even if it's just a glass shade
or a a lamp holder in any of the
component parts that we sell they exist
in
three dimensions in our system so let us
know and we'll upload the product we'll
send you a link
uh we'll put the product link on the on
the product we'll put the
link to the augmented reality file in an
email whatever needs we'll try to help
in doing this so certainly let us know
if that's the case
so there is a page or a post on a
website that explains this in
some technical detail there are links to
the application on our
website i think it's a post called
augmented reality and product
visualization
something like that if you want to
download the app go there there's links
to the app but uh
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