Trimble and Umbra team up to enable Mixed Reality for BIM

Trimble announced that it is adopting technology from Umbra 3D graphics to develop mixed reality applications for BIM for its Mixed Reality Pilot program. Umbra’s technology has been widely used in games because it optimizes the way large models are handled with pre-processing and evaluation so that the triangle count is reduced, level of detail is appropriate for the scene, occlusion culling ensures only visible objects are processed. Umbra, founded in 2006 with a core group of people who were at the Helsinki-based mobile middleware company Hybrid Graphics has significant deals in the gaming world. They are included in the