Absorber Workspace Menus#

Type of Menus#

Menus are one of two types:

Hand menu

A menu that is attached to your hand when you look at your palm and will disappear when your hand is turned or out of sight. This menu allows you quick access to the most common operations.

Panel menu

Panel menu follows you in a comfortable distance and allows the use of both your hands or simultanious manipulation of the map.

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Hand Menu#
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Panel Menu#

Tip

  • To pin a panel, click on the pin icon located in its top right corner

  • To move a panel, grab it from the white bar on the top middle of the menu

  • To close a panel, click the X on the top right corner

Floating Keyboard#

Whenever you click inside a textbox, a keyboard will appear allowing you to type, the keyboard handles like a Panel Menu

Map Tools#

Main Menu ‣ Map Tools

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Layer Selection Panel#

Main Menu ‣ Map Tools ‣ Layers

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Layers can be displayed and hidden using the checkboxes.

Paint Panel#

Main Menu ‣ Map Tools ‣ Paint

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Move the color slider to select a color and the line thickness slider to change brush thickness. To paint a line, just pinch to strat painting in 3d and let go to stop. To erase, click the erase button and pinch a drawn line.

Assets#

Main Menu ‣ Assets

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Assets Panel#
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Numberes Asset#
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Grab an Asset#
Add

To add an asset, simply grab it and put it in the requiered location.

Attention

Assets are only deployable within the map bounds

Tip

Using the slider on the right, you can spawn human assets with numbers for representing unites before grabbing them.

Tip

The Measurement Tape asset located in Misc allows you to measure 3D distance in the workspace, add it to the map and drag its ends to the two points you want to measure distances.

Move

To move or rotate an asset, grab it from its label.

Delete

To delete an asset, grab and drop it outside the map bounds. For the measuring tape, drop one of its ends outside the map to delete it.

Delete All

You can delete ALL assets by clicking the trash can button on the bottom right of the assets panel.

Caution

Clicking and confirming “delete” will delete assets everywhere.

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Place a simple Asset#
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Place a countable Asset#
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Move an Asset by grabing its card#
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Delete an Asset by moving it outside of the map area#

Simulation#

Please refer to the Simulation tab.

Settings#

Main Menu ‣ Settings

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Snapshot

Take a snapshot of your field of view.

Tip

Snapshots are stored in the Windows/Pictures folder

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Save/Load menu#

Save/Load

Save current map layout or load a previous one

Click “save” and type in the name to save current map layout Select a map layout from the list and click “Load” to load it Clicke Delete to delete the selected map layout

Edit Table

Resize and move the map, see Moving and Resizing the Map

Advanced

Open Advanced Settings

Advanced Settings#

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Advanced Settings menu#

Main Menu ‣ Settings ‣ Advanced

HandJoint

Turn on/off hand joints

HandMesh

Turn on/off hand mesh

QRAlign

Use QR alignment for co-location (default)

ManualAlign

Use manual alignment for co-location (see Alignment options)

Profiler

Show application load (CPU/GPU/RAM)

Alignment options#

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Align Visual with QR Alignment#

QR Alignment#

  1. QR Alignment is on by default

  2. Look at the QR code from ~0.5-1m away, the Align visual will appear floating near the QR code to indicate a successful alignment

  • If QR Alignment is not on, you can activate it by going to Main Menu ‣ Settings ‣ Advanced and click “QR Align”

Manual alignment#

Attention

Manual alignment will inevitably result in sub-optimal alignment and should be performed only when its impossible to use QR Alignment

  1. Activate manual alignment by going to Main Menu ‣ Settings ‣ Advanced and click “Manual Align”. Alignment widget will appear for all users in the room around the map

  2. Grab and place the widget in a fixed position that all participants agree upon

  3. Grab and turn the blue stick with “N” to a direction that all participants agree upon

  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all participants in the room

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Manual Alignment#