The web standard technologies have evolved quickly the last few years and hence have opened a brand new range of features which were impossible before. If we had to choose the two standards that will have the biggest impact in the coming years we would probably select WebGL which brings true 3D capabilities to the browser and Web Sockets which offers full duplex communication with the server. During this session, I will not only tell how WebGL can help product manufacturers to work more efficiently or how Web Sockets can be leveraged to implement user to user communication, I will mainly explain how we can smartly mix the two together. Actually, this is what we did within our open source PLM platform. By combining both WebGL and Web Sockets API we were able to enhance our web digital mock-up viewer with real-time collaboration features that enable users to perform product models co-reviews across the web.

2. Real-time product design review on
the web
The project
3D on the Web
Real-time web API
Demo

3. The project
Process Management
PLM = Product Lifecycle Management
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Bill of Materials
Document
Management
Product Confguration
Product Structure
Change
Management
Data Visualization

4. Technologies
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Modern and
standard stacks
Elasticsearch
HTML5
Java EE 7
BackBoneJS
NodeJS

5. 3D on the Web
 Works on all modern browsers
 Based on OpenGL ES 2.0
 Many mature engines built on
 2D frameworks start using WGL renderer
 Even has low level API like Vertex and
Pixel shaders
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Web 3D, the point
Interesting things we do
 Delegate computation on server side
using Node.js
 Rely on Web Workers to parallelize
algorithms

6. Real-time Web API
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Real-time Web, the point
 Server-Sent Events: one way
messaging
 Web Sockets: great but not really HTTP
 WebRTC: awesome features: SRTP,
STUN, TURN and ICE for NAT transversal
 MediaStream API
Interesting things we do
 Contextual chat & video conference
 Digital Mock-Up review

7. Demo
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8. Florent Garin
Co-founder & CTO
florent.garin@docdoku.com
Tel
+335 61 72 24 09
Web
www.docdoku.com
www.docdokuplm.com
Twitter
@docdoku
Find us
Toulouse
Immeuble Le Delphe
37 rue Lancefoc
31000 Toulouse