Virtalis
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- I joined Virtalis as a Junior Software Product Developer in August 2019.
- Moved onto being a Professional Software Product Developer in April 2021.
- Left Virtalis in April 2022
Products I’ve worked on:
Visionary Render
Visionary Render is a design review tool for business to review/visualise their CAD data. It can also be used to develop training simulations as well.
During my time working on Visionary Render, I was mainly working on rendering systems. This includes:
- Animation Systems: How the application manages animations imported by customers.
- Rendering pipelines: Maintained the rendering pipelines of Visionary Render.
- Shaders: Maintaining support for customer written post-processing shaders. Also contributed to Ocean simulation shader (Implemented Snell’s Window).
Virtalis Reach
After working on Visionary Render, I was moved onto the Virtalis Reach team during the prototyping stages and then to release to customers. This is a web client used to run Visionary Render projects in a browser.
During this time I was working on the WebGL renderer alongside other serverside operations. Such as support for VR/XR headsets using WebXR and communication between the web client and server.
During my time working on Virtalis Reach, I have worked on:
- WebGL rendering pipelines and working on WebXR capabilities.
- Writing React components that communicate with the server to fetch the scene tree and update it.
- Using Rest API to fetch scene data.
Both products I had to overcome some challenges. Such as performance of the rendering systems as CAD data can be very complex. Especially trying to render these geometries in a browser. Both renderers used deferred rendering techniques.
Visionary Render Technologies:
- C/C++
- OpenGL
- Deferred Rendering
- GLSL shaders
- Post-processing
- CMAKE
- OpenVR
- Animations
Virtalis Reach Technologies:
- TypeScript
- C++ 17
- React
- WebGL
- WebXR
- TCP sockets
