{"id":147320,"date":"2022-10-01T01:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/how-bentley-systems-3dft-could-conquer-the-infrastructure-metaverse"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:24:37","slug":"how-bentley-systems-3dft-could-conquer-the-infrastructure-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/how-bentley-systems-3dft-could-conquer-the-infrastructure-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"How Bentley Systems\u2019 3DFT could conquer the infrastructure metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bentley-systems-3dft-could-conquer-the-infrastructure-metaverse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Construction data can quickly scale into gigabytes and terabytes of data. The field is complicated because teams use various file formats to design, construct and operate a building or facility. Teams must often load the whole file into proprietary rendering tools before showing off a new design or collaborating on schedules. These files can be even more complex when building out large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/why-composability-is-key-to-scaling-digital-twins\/\">digital twins<\/a> of whole cities like <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/helsinkis-pioneering-city-digital-twin\/\">Helsinki<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/business\/how-singapore-created-the-first-country-scale-digital-twin\/\">Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/business\/bentley-nvidia-integration-could-streamline-us-infrastructure-overhaul\/\">Bentley Systems<\/a> hopes to change that. At a technology demonstration event in London, Bentley showed off a new 3D streaming codec for the <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/data-infrastructure\/the-5-most-popular-infrastructure-stories-of-2021-and-what-they-reveal-about-2022\/\">infrastructure metaverse<\/a> called 3DFT. It\u2019s already running on the Epic Unreal Engine, and Bentley plans to support other platforms down the road.<\/p>\n<p>3DFT is not the first format for streaming metaverse data. The GIS industry has been streaming 2D data for years using tiles. And the Open Geospatial Consortium has been working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/virtual\/how-3d-tiles-is-creating-a-new-streaming-protocol-for-games-and-the-metaverse\/\">3D Tiles<\/a> standard to extend streaming into the third dimension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction data can quickly scale into gigabytes and terabytes of data. The field is complicated because teams use various file formats to design, construct and operate a building or facility. Teams must often load the whole file into proprietary rendering tools before showing off a new design or collaborating on schedules. These files can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}