Accelerating the Fusion of Real and Metaverse, AR Cloud Platform ‘Pretia’ Officially Launched to the US

3D mapping through spatial understanding, relocalization, and multiplayer are all in one service.

Pretia Technologies, Inc. launched the AR cloud platform “Pretia” on April 26, which is integrating VPS and multiplayer.

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■ About “Pretia”

Pretia is the AR cloud platform that makes it easy to develop AR experiences.

Components of Pretia

Pretia provides the following tools based on development with Unity

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• 3Dscan App

This dedicated smartphone application is for making point cloud-based 3Dmap. It runs on Android, with an iOS version to be released within a few months, and no depth sensor such as LiDAR is required.

• Developer Console

There is a website for organizing 3Dmap, the app, and members, which works on browsers.

• Pretia SDK

SDK is for connecting Unity and Pretia servers, which supports importing 3Dmap to Unity, and embedding AR content into the space.

■ AR experiences that Pretia enables

Using Pretia, users can enable:

• RPG that organizes parties for a group of people;
• Advertisements that begin to move;
• AR-enabled puzzle games;
• Apps that display a lot of product information;
• Navigation in a warehouse or a distribution/logistics base;
• Visual operation manual at a plant/factory.

Pretia is able to be used in both B2C and B2B cases.
■ Key function 

• 3D mapping (point cloud based)
  Fast 3D mapping using the dedicated scanning app.
• 3Dmap extension/synthesis
  Extend the created map as necessary or even synthesize the maps from different time slots; this lessens the risk of failure of localization.
• Content authoring
  Place the object by using the scanning app to easily place the AR object on Unity.
• Organize team/Member
  For easy group development, as well as adding, removing, and changing the access rights for each member.
• Relocalization
  Quickly localize and track the location/motion based on the prepared 3Dmap. accurately delivering the AR experience to end users. Relocalization is available on both Android and iOS (ARCore and ARKit must be supported).
• Multiplayer
  Enable the development of AR experiences that multiple users can share at the same time. Pretia provides its own multiplay cloud server.

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