FactVerse Designer 1.0 Released: Streamlined, OOBT Enterprise Metaverse Design

DataMesh has recently released FactVerse Designer 1.0, an updated version of its pioneering enterprise metaverse designer. This tool, designed for the creation of digital twin scenes involving complex systems and businesses, provides a streamlined approach to leveraging enterprise assets to construct digital twin and metaverse scenarios, bringing the open-world gaming architecture and rapid scene design to the enterprise world.

Key features include:

  • Standardization and rapid creation of digital twin scenes for enterprise digital assets.
  • Support for various types of data and behavioral logic to drive scene operations.
  • Quick and low-cost implementation of complex business logic through behavior tree tools, flexible for adjustment on the fly.
  • Real-time optimization and adjustment based on scene operations.
  • Diversified scene editing tools and effect components.

Alongside this release, substantial updates have been made to DataMesh’s flagship platform FactVerse, extending the capabilities of the company’s comprehensive suite of digital twin and XR solutions.

FactVerse Designer 1.0 incorporates various enhancements over its previous versions. This advanced innovative tool facilitates seamless design and execution of simulations, particularly for systems requiring complex operational logic. Importantly, it provides a user-friendly interface and intuitive operations, even for those without a programming background, enabling them to easily participate in scene design. Additionally, users can adapt and optimize their simulation results dynamically in response to the rapidly changing data associated with their most recent business operations.

FactVerse Designer is meticulously designed to cater to the specific needs of industries like manufacturing, transportation, and logistics. By integrating real-time data into digital twin scenes, it assists frontline users in identifying potential issues promptly, gaining insights, and implementing data-driven solutions. This tool supports agile adjustments in response to evolving business dynamics.

Standout capabilities of FactVerse Designer include:

  • Digital Twin Template: The intuitive template editor facilitates quick digital twin creation, providing a suitable 3D representation. Users can effortlessly develop standard digital twin templates through straightforward structure property configurations and a visual approach to behavior tree construction. This feature simplifies the creation and management of similar digital twins across different scenarios.
  • Digital Twin Scene: The scene editor allows users to easily establish the layout and interconnections of digital twins within an application scene, using straightforward drag-and-drop actions. A flexible playback debugging function supports real-time modification of digital twin properties based on issues identified during the playback of scenes. It also enables real-time tracking of the behavior tree traversal state and scene operation logs. Moreover, in path planning mode, users can outline three-dimensional pathways for scene characters such as vehicles and personnel within the digital twin scene to implement character movement, so that the movement of digital twins aligns with their real functioning status.
  • Behavior Tree: This feature provides a visually appealing and graphical tool for constructing behavior trees. Its user-friendly design allows users to quickly understand and grasp the operational skills and implement a diverse range of action nodes, including digital twin control nodes, path nodes, and mathematical function nodes.

The continual evolution of FactVerse and its applications further demonstrates DataMesh’s commitment to enhancing its capabilities in empowering Training, Experience, Monitoring & Control, and Simulation (TEMS) for enterprises to optimize operations, enhance productivity, and facilitate data-driven decision-making, accelerating the democratization of digital twins.

For more information about FactVerse, inquiries regarding enterprise metaverse collaboration, digital twin scenario creation, product trials, or subscriptions, please reach out to us at service@datamesh.com.

Learn more about how to utilize FactVerse Designer by reading this User Manual.

About DataMesh

DataMesh is a leading high-tech innovator dedicated to democratizing digital twins and connecting the digital and real world, empowering frontline workers. Headquartered in Singapore, DataMesh operates across Japan, North America, Southeast Asia, China, and Australia, with over 500 customers in the AEC, manufacturing, and facility management industries. In 2020, DataMesh was the only finalist from Asia in the Microsoft Partner of the Year, Mixed Reality category. The company won NTT Docomo’s top DX award in 2021 and was enrolled in the IMDA Spark program in Singapore. DataMesh also made it to Forbes Asia’s 100 to Watch list in 2022. Visit us at https://datamesh.com/.

DataMesh Unveils New Digital Twin-based Simulator Platform

DataMesh has announced the launch of DataMesh Simulator 2.0, an innovative platform designed to provide operators with an immersive learning experience. Based on digital twin and motion simulation technologies, it integrates equipment operation simulation training, job simulation training, and operational behavior assessment into a single platform, addressing key challenges in heavy machinery, mining equipment, specialized vehicles, aircraft, and more.

Traditional training in these fields often faces challenges such as training duration, cost, accessibility, safety, and weather dependencies, as it heavily relies on the availability of real equipment and physical environments. To overcome these challenges, many enterprises are turning to digital solutions to supplement their training activities.

DataMesh Simulator 2.0 features several key modules, including environmental simulation, mechanical simulation, practical training, and practical examinations. It effectively helps deal with limited training durations and environments on actual machines by allowing trainees to familiarize themselves with various types of engineering machinery before engaging with real equipment and environments. With DataMesh Simulator, users can practice extensively at any time, gaining operational skills and techniques while significantly improving training efficiency.

The platform creates a 1:1 replication of the real machine experience by combining the advantages of hardware and software. It includes a three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) or six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion platform, a dynamic simulation system, environment simulation, a simulated training cockpit, a motion control system, and front/left/right panoramic display screens with surround sound simulation systems. Additionally, it is equipped with software covering theoretical learning, cloud services, simulation, visualization, examination, signal acquisition, sound, and motion control systems. Together, these components create digital twins of the real working environment, enabling an effective alternative to traditional engineering equipment training methods.

For trainees, DataMesh Simulator allows them to fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements and the platform incorporates text prompts, guided animations, force feedback, and motion simulation within the teaching process. For trainers, such as training schools or enterprises, the platform enables them to develop diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment and provides flexibility to design comprehensive quantifiable indicators, facilitating content creation and reuse of virtual courseware.

Compared to traditional training methods, DataMesh Simulator offers several advantages:

  • Reduced Training Costs: By eliminating the need for specific environmental conditions like weather and terrain and powered by electricity instead of gasoline, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digitized and iterative 3D content and courseware based on the FactVerse platform, achieving significant cost savings compared to investments in real equipment.
  • Greater Flexibility: The platform provides exceptional flexibility in training scenarios. Training schools or enterprises can create customizable digital twins, scenarios, and assessment logics using FactVerse’s zero-code tools. It supports multi-user collaborative training, allowing users to easily switch between different training scenarios as needed.
  • Enhanced Safety: DataMesh Simulator significantly reduces operational safety risks, property damage, and potential risks to life. By simulating dangerous operations within a safe environment, operators gain valuable experience without compromising safety.
  • Comprehensive Training Management: The platform incorporates a comprehensive learning management system with an immersive training experience that enables extensive tracking and feedback on training performance data and assessment methods. It ensures an immersive training experience and seamless integration with mainstream examination systems, supporting various file formats.

DataMesh Simulator empowers businesses to enhance flexibility in training scenarios, reduce training costs, and deliver safer and more reliable training methods and comprehensive training management. By using DataMesh Simulator, SANY and Sunward recreate the operating process of rotary drilling rigs to enhance operational and training efficiency in a digitized manner, significantly reducing accidents caused by inexperienced operators, lowering training costs, and minimizing mechanical wear and tear on equipment.

Setting New Standards for Motion Simulation Training

DataMesh Simulator distinguishes itself from other training platforms through its exceptionally immersive simulation fidelity, realistic motion simulation, and immersive operating cabin experience. Unlike conventional equipment systems with limited visual effects and outdated architecture, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digital twin technology, simulation-based solutions, and motion control to create an authentic sensory experience. It accurately reproduces mechanical states such as movement, tilting, rotation, and vibration, offering a user-friendly UI and simulation system.

Powered by DataMesh’s enterprise metaverse platform, FactVerse, the Simulator offers diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment. Trainees can fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements.

DataMesh Simulator integrates DataMesh Learn training solution, providing a comprehensive and unified assessment system for trainee information management, which supports tracking training progress, editing and distributing examination content, archiving and querying assessment results, and more.

The platform supports private and cloud-based deployment, with a modular approach offering zero-code tools for content creation, enabling customization and upgrades to meet evolving enterprise needs. Additionally, the visual system seamlessly integrates with mainstream VR presentation methods, offering flexibility in adjusting courses and enhancing the overall training experience.

With DataMesh Simulator, trainees can be able to handle equipment in advance and gain valuable experience, addressing challenges such as limited learning time, opportunity and efficiency, and safety in real environments. For enterprises, manufacturers, and training institutions, it provides an efficient, cost-effective, safe, and controllable training solution. By applying digital twin and motion simulation technologies, DataMesh Simulator 2.0 will help drive the development of simulation-based training and provide a new training and assessment approach for the engineering equipment industry.

DataMesh Director 5.4 Released

DataMesh Director 5.4 offers a variety of new features and major enhancements to help users create and manage digital twin resources more quickly and easily, with an optimized user experience. Meanwhile, at this exciting moment, we are presenting the brand-new icons of the DataMesh Director family.

New icons of DataMesh Director

New features of DataMesh Studio

  • NEW pane of the “Resources” library and “Roles” now supports users to adjust the size of the area freely, by clicking and dragging the slider.
  • NEW search function in the “Resources” library has been added. With the new file type filter, users can find resources more quickly.
  • NEW toolbar that features a set of buttons including Home, Save, Undo, and Redo has been added in the upper left corner. Moreover, new capabilities include Group, Ungroup, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
  • NEW “Group” function allows users to group multiple selected roles. Users can create a name for the group, adjust its position and rotate it, in short, using the group as a role.
  • NEW “Light Source” gadget enables users to add light sources to a scene, supporting the configuration of attributes including light intensity, color, and light range. Two light sources are added by default when a scenario is created in DataMesh Director 5.4. Users can then modify the light sources based on their needs afterwards. When a scene is being played, the light source models are automatically hidden.
Adjusting the range of the lighting

Adjusting the angle of the lighting

Adjusting the intensity of the lighting

Adjusting the color of the lighting

New features of DataMesh One

  1. NEW support for the Azure Spatial Anchor function for the positioning of a scenario. Once configured, the positioning of a scenario is set up and remains effective until further changes are made.*
  2. NEW support for scanning a QR code to view 3D resources quickly. The button is in the upper right corner.
  3. The ability to operate 2D resources in scenarios has been enhanced, with new supports including full screen, pause, mute, fast forward, rewind, and pin a 2D resource on top.
  4. The operation panel has been redesigned to improve functionality and users’ efficiency.
  5. Bug fixes and other operational experience optimization.

New features of DataMesh Importer

  1. NEW support for the quick view of models. By dragging a model file onto the Importer icon, users can view the models immediately.
  2. NEW “Operating Parameters” pane to display key parameters such as memory usage, DrawCall, Batches, and FPS.
  3. Bug fixes and other operational experience optimization.

Tips

1. Third-party login is not yet supported on macOS devices.

2. DataMesh One 5.3.3 and earlier versions do not support opening a scenario created by Studio 5.4.

The DataMesh Director 5.4 has been published on all supported platform app stores. Customers who have purchased DataMesh SaaS services can directly upgrade the DataMesh Director client. For any queries, please contact service@datamesh.com.

*Note: The function of spatial anchor requires Microsoft Azure Spatial Anchors services. For the pricing, please visit here.

DataMesh Director 5 Released

After 18 months of polishing, DataMesh Director 5 just gets released! Compared with the earlier version, Director 5 enables users to build better digital twin workflows. Some notable changes:

  • Significantly improved BIM capabilities, allowing digital twin applications to span construction, supervision, and operation
  • Optimized editing experience, making digital twin content generation more convenient
  • Improved enterprise data security feature, making digital twin more secure on the cloud

Looking back at Director 4, we released the SaaS version of DataMesh Digital Twin Cloud Services (DCS) digital twin platform applications. The platform enabled better-standardized support capability in manufacturing training, after-sales, and construction. Our global customers have reached 100. Now with DataMesh Director 5, we will further enhance the ability to build BIM-based large-space digital twin scenarios, the ability to connect BOM and IoT platforms, and the ability to create hybrid deployments. The improvements will enable complex digital twin systems to become readily available anytime, anywhere.

Improved BIM Support

Multi-level sub-object editing and import
In DataMesh Director 5, users can pre-select the structural information of sub-objects when uploading 3D models in the new DataMesh Importer. In this way, DataMesh Studio can handle multi-level sub-object models more efficiently after importing, which is convenient for users to create content based on object structure.

Support multi-space positioning Marker
Under the new positioning mode of DataMesh Studio, multiple positioning markers are now supported within the digital twin scene. Markers can be printed on paper to enable positioning for cell phones and AR glasses. By scanning the Marker, users can quickly create the virtual-real combination of any location in DataMesh One and retrieve the digital twin content in building construction, maintenance, and operation.

Model masking function
When editing a scene, objects can be set to transparent, retaining their spatial location information and outlines, forming a mask for the virtual image behind them. The mask function allows users to accurately present virtual scene content in multiple directions when building scenes while avoiding the obstruction of the virtual image to the line of sight in the experience. Content creators can use it for better expression of large space scenes and fine-grained content.

Visual datum and ground transparency
Director 5 adds a visual datum concept and provides ground transparency options, enables users to manipulate BIM more efficiently. In DataMesh Studio, the datum can be easily moved by Shift+mouse pull, and the view rotation point is always at the center of the datum. The non-MR mode of One side also supports a similar operation. DataMesh Studio also added a ground transparency option. The transparency of the ground can be adjusted during editing, helping the users view the part below the horizontal plane, for example, buildings and corridors.

Optimized Content Creation Experience

DataMesh Importer
The 3D model and resource import function is now a standalone application, DataMesh Importer, to optimize content creation workflow. You can download it from Microsoft Store and Mac App Store. New content can now be uploaded and optimized without exiting Studio’s editing mode. Self-service 3D model cloud conversion service is currently in internal testing in our Japan region. It will be available in the other regions later this year.

Script objects support quick copy and paste

When editing content in DataMesh Studio, users can now use the object copy and paste shortcut (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) to improve editing efficiency.

Images and videos ‘Always Facing Viewer’
Director 5 adds camera orientation for image and video controls. When the camera orientation option is checked in the Object panel, images and videos will always face the viewer’s camera view, allowing users to view information from different angles.

Restore camera view
DataMesh Studio adds the ability to restore the recorded camera position. Users can restore the last recorded position of the camera with one click.

Temporary object hiding
This feature enhances the experience of editing the content of complex structural objects. (Does not affect DataMesh One)

Web page embedding in AR
Director 5 provides users with web page embedding capabilities to leverage existing enterprise data dashboards, reports, and office system information. Content creators can now insert Web controls directly into the scene using DataMesh Studio. Using DataMesh One, you can display the corresponding Kanban boards on-site with just one click and no custom development required, making it easier to create digital twin applications.

Optimized scene list performance
In Director 4, editing a single scene refreshes all subsequent scenes. As more and more users started to build complex scripts for playbooks, the performance of DataMesh Studio degrades. Director 5 made several optimizations to the Studio’s scene list. When making changes to the scene content, only the current scene preview gets refreshed.

Improved Enterprise Data Security

Login IP allowlist
IT administrators of enterprise tenants can now adjust who can access the services by setting the login IP allowlist in DCS. This new feature restricts reliable user sources to safeguard enterprise data security.

Hybrid Deployment Support
DataMesh Director 5 supports enterprise SaaS/private hybrid deployment to protect sensitive data from leaking. Hybrid deployment creates a physical boundary of CAD drawings. In this way, content creators can desensitize data within a protected environment, facilitating end-users to use the product in public scenarios.

Australia Region Goes Live
To ensure cross-border data compliance, DataMesh Director 5 adds an Australian region to serve customers in the area. The new region is operated by our Australian partner Holovision 3D locally, which is a professional BIM service provider based in Brisbane. Holovision 3D also provides 3D scanning, surveying, and BIM design services.

Management Process Optimization
DCS portal has been optimized to make the registration and login experience smoother. The max number of trial license users has been increased to 4 per tenant.

WebGL deployment
In Director 5.0, DataMesh One starts to support WebGL deployment (WebXR not yet supported). WebGL experience is related to the user’s browser environment. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with DataMesh if you want to join the private testing.

Customers who have already subscribed to DataMesh Director SaaS service can upgrade the client directly. For platform development, live demo or product quote, please get in touch with us at service@datamesh.com

Create Data Driven Model with 1-Click in DataMesh Director 4.3.6

DataMesh Director 4.3.7 has been released! This version fixed several bugs, made performance improvements, and expanded support for more data types. Most importantly, we added a 1-Click Data-Driven feature in this release for Preview testing. You can contact us for a special license update.

 If you are still using version 4.2, please update ASAP. The old one client/studio does not support the new features introduced in 4.3.

DataMesh Studio
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DataMesh One
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For special support of Android/Linux-based AR glasses, such as Magic Leap, Nreal, LLVision, Lenovo, ShadowCreator, please contact us directly.