Features and Changes

Fologram 2024.X adds a number of major features and improvements in a simplified UI.

Overview

• Removed requirement for local networks and firewall permissions to establish connections
• Internet connection is required to establish sessions
• Once established, sessions are peer-to-peer

• Added support for remote connections (non-local-network)

• Improved stability

• Added cloud hosted (published) models

• Improved precision in AR placement

• Added native support for Rhino Mac

• Added support for gaze and depth camera streaming

• Removed support for HoloLens 1

Grasshopper

• Added “Sync Geometry” component
• Added support for creating and syncing Point Clouds, Text Dots, Text Entities
• Added support for specifying Display Mode, Transform, Interactions and Material with parametric inputs
• Added animated transitions between transform updates
• Added display modes: Rendered, Shaded, Wireframe, Occluded, RenderedWireframe, ShadedWireframe, OccludedWireframe

• Added “Get” components and “Event Trigger”
• Added “Get Points” to stream 3D point clouds from from the HoloLens 2 and lidar enabled devices
• Added support for eye gaze tracking from the HoloLens 2

• Added Sync XR Parameters option to the Fologram dropdown
• Parameters in device panel are sorted based on vertical position in the document

• Depreciated “Track” components
• For backwards compatibility, track scan also includes option to toggle between meshes and point clouds
• For backwards compatibility, track interactors also returns eye gaze

• Depreciated “Sync Object”, “Sync Material” and “Sync Text Tag” components

• Depreciated Assign Transform, Assign Material

• Removed Sync Parameters component

• Removed support for tracking Aruco markers (due to improvements in QR tracking)

Grasshopper Utilities

• Added Point Cloud, Construct Point Cloud, Deconstruct Point Cloud

• Added Text Entity, Construct Text Entity, Deconstruct Text Entity

• Added Text Dot, Construct Text Dot, Deconstruct Text Dot

• Added Cloud Closest Point

• Added new Get Rhino Material picker

• Removed transparent canvas option

• Depreciated Decimate Mesh

Rhino

• Improved marker workflows. Define marker locations as points (text dots) with the XRMarker command

• Connected users are rendered directly in the viewport

• Improved curve support

• Native TextDot and Text support. Text dots are now fixed size.

• Native PointCloud support

• Added per-document properties (display mode, interactivity)

• Added per-object properties (display mode, interactivity, visualization, scale, texture resolution)

• Added Support for Mac

• Added “Upload” button for cloud publishing

• New primary commands: XRStart, XRStop, XRPublish, XRMarker

• New secondary commands: XRLogs, XRProperties, XRUpdate, SelMarker

• Simplified UI

• Removed Rhino 5 support

• Removed “Network”, “Model”, and “Log” tabs from UI

HoloLens 2

• Simplified UI for opening and closing menu using near-touch interactions with a button on your palm

• Simplified model positioning

• Always-on QR tracking
• Tap to connect - no need to launch Fologram first!
• Support for high-precision placement using multiple markers
• Support for detecting markers at any size
• Improved QR code detection rates and accuracy

• Removed settings panel

• Removed model snapshots and viewer (use web dashboard)

Mobile / Tablet

• Simplified model positioning

• Simplified layers/parameters menu

• Always-on QR tracking (see HL2 notes)

• Removed camera / video button (use native device recording tools)

• Removed model snapshots and viewer (use web dashboard)

Web

• Added support for publishing cloud-hosted models

• Gallery view to browse and connect to published models