Alex Z

Do you think hosting project data using 3rd party service BUT 100% encrypting data would satisfy the needs of such projects?

What kind of solution are you going to tackle?

Thats true that some of the cases can be covered by 3D PDF, but there are others that require real size 3D models which user can walk around and check (for instance for quality assurance on site purposes). Why does it bother you? What are you trying to achieve by keeping the models inside the devices, internal servers? This way you're loosing online collaboration possibilities, and most popular cloud providers like Amazon provide almost 100% of uptime which most likely can't be achieved using internal servers. Again this depends on the use case, but most of them can be covered by a mobile companion apps (if we're talking about hololens app as a main app) and everybody have mobile phones nowadays. How are you currently using 3D PDF?

Sorry for bumping this thread as I realise there haven't been any comments for more than a month. We have been working on validating a couple of use cases for AEC and AR technology (particularly we're interested in Hololens usage - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens). One of our use cases was to view BIM models - with the concept being able to walk through the building during construction and fit out stage and see the BIM model overlaid on the actual space. Is there anyone here who's interested in discussing the given topic?