KML, IPhone

[bFlood]

hi all

came across Gamaray, really great stuff. it worked as advertised on
the google IO phone

1) iPhone - when available, will there be a Gamaray port to the
iPhone? not looking for timeframes, just wondering if this is even on
the roadmap. Love android but there is that pesky iPhone install
base...

2) KML - Google Earth uses a well known XML format called KML to load
and display user defined features (points,lines,polygons, images,
models etc). They also use KML NetworkLinks to dynamically load this
data based on location/region, elapsed time or the current viewport.
this is very close to how your current dynamic dimensions work now and
since an AR viewport is just a simplified version of a Google Earth
viewport, this might be an excellent spec to include in base client.
there are many, many servers that currently make dynamic data
available to GE that would be excellent to include in Gamaray. I guess
you could do this now by using your own server as a proxy but native
KML support would really open up your system IMO
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html#networklink

3) will you support geometry primitives like linestring and polygon in
the future? I guess these could be formated as GAMA3D objects on the
fly but again, native support would be great. Your support for Models
is awesome, I've not seen that in other sdk yet, primitive geometries
would be another great addition

cheers
brian

[Clayton Lilly]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your interest in Gamaray. To answer your questions:

1) We are planning an iPhone version, but have not started yet.

2) KML is great, and I think it probably should be the standard for AR
browsers. Unfortunately I only found out about it half way through the
project (not sure how I missed it), and it would have taken a lot of
time to implement it right. On the plus side, Gamaray's current
architecture is much closer to supporting KML than the other AR
browsers, so supporting it is still a possibility.

3) Probably won't add these features untilI I decide to do KML. As you
said they can be handled by the current GAMA3D format.

On Sep 8, 10:32 am, bFlood <bflood...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all
>
> came across Gamaray, really great stuff. it worked as advertised on
> the google IO phone
>
> 1) iPhone - when available, will there be a Gamaray port to the
> iPhone? not looking for timeframes, just wondering if this is even on
> the roadmap. Love android but there is that pesky iPhone install
> base...
>
> 2) KML - Google Earth uses a well known XML format called KML to load
> and display user defined features (points,lines,polygons, images,
> models etc). They also use KML NetworkLinks to dynamically load this
> data based on location/region, elapsed time or the current viewport.
> this is very close to how your current dynamic dimensions work now and
> since an AR viewport is just a simplified version of a Google Earth
> viewport, this might be an excellent spec to include in base client.
> there are many, many servers that currently make dynamic data
> available to GE that would be excellent to include in Gamaray. I guess
> you could do this now by using your own server as a proxy but native

> KML support would really open up your system IMOhttp://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html#netwo...

[bFlood]

thanks for the info Clayton! totally agree that Gamaray's current
architecture is much more extensible then the others right now

any word on the GAMA3D spec?

cheers
brian

[Clayton Lilly]

I'll try to get it out there early next week. The format is basically
just a simplified, binary version of an OBJ file.

[Clayton Lilly]

I probably won't have time to publish the details of the GAMA3D format
until next week, I've gotten a little side-tracked. You can still use
the OBJ to GAMA3D converter while waiting, it works most of the time:

http://dimensions.gamaray.com/Dimensions/OBJFileConverter