Archive notice: This article was originally published on May 22, 2018. Links and embedded videos are preserved as part of the historical record.
Anyone who wants to simplify and optimise complex 3D scenes for VR now has a free option from Google. Seurat has switched to open source and impresses with the result from Blade Runner: Revolution. Seismic used Seurat to break down a scene with around 46.6 million triangles to 307,000. This improved performance by a hundredfold, with almost zero loss of visual quality.
You can find more about how it works and what it can do in the Google Developers Blog.
The code, as well as the plug-ins for Maya, Unity and Unreal, is available on GitHub.
