art.media.platform.SDK

A fully provisioned solution for files, media, and 3D asset sharing and deployment we can all agree on.

art.media.platform "Amp" is a potent 3D client-to-infrastructure aid that provides a secure, scalable, and extensible runtime for 3D applications. It supports 3D and media-centric apps with pluggable infrastructure, and allows artists, publishers, creators, and organizations to control asset deployments and experiences within high-fidelity spatial or geographic environments.

Key Features

• Secure, "turn-key" support for:

  • Distributing spatially organized media and files, transforming human accessibility.
  • Browsing and previewing assets and content for public or private consumption or sale.
  • Publishing first-class 3D experiences on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and XR headsets like Oculus and VisionPro.
  • Deploying content "crates" independently of your app release cycle.
  • Integrated hardware-based authentication & signing (e.g. Yubikey)

• Direct integration with Unity and Unreal by embedding Amp's Go native library that your 3D app invokes through convenient bindings.

• A lightweight, stand-alone "headless" executable named amp.host that offers federated and decentralized support and storage options.

What does this solve?

Amp bridges native 3D apps to system, network, and infrastructure services, solving key problems.

Traditional file and asset management systems are inadequate when there are hundreds or thousands of assets to organize, experience, or review. Teams often resort to makeshift solutions for collaboration and sharing which compromise efficiency and security.

Teams often collaborate over large file sets, yet they deploy using production systems that are entirely different from their development workflows. Many sharing and collaboration solutions exist, but they lack first-class spatial linking and native 3D content integration while suffering from inflexible, confining web or OS-based user experiences.

Meanwhile, web-based 3D frameworks like Three.js do not compare to native Unreal and Unity experiences nor offer a path for real-world asset deployments. For example, 3D experiences require asset deployments often exceeding many gigabytes and are impossible through a web browser. Worse, web stacks pose many blockers that publishers have little or no ability to address, such as texturing features, performance potholes, or animation.

art.media.platform is a bridge and toolbox that allows 3D app developers to focus on their core value proposition. It offers rich support for persistent state, user interfaces, and content immersion, allowing apps to break free of web and OS limitations. Teams, leads, designers, artists, organizers, and ultimately consumers need better tools to richly and safely share assets.

A Next Generation

Previous generations of this work went into production in 2019 to become PLAN 3D. This past and present architecture, though ambitious, is being increasingly recognized as the inevitable step in the evolution of 3D applications.

In a world where AI-assisted exploits will only get worse, our security model prioritizes security and privacy. It uses a nested containers and offers "state-grade" protection — all while the client runtime delivers rich, native 3D experiences for business, organizations, and creatives.

Spatial Web

This framework offers in-app web browsing that pairs powerfully with spatial linking. Frameworks such as Webview are just another component in the Amp client, allowing your app to have an embedded web browser out of the box. This allows URLs and web experiences to be linked spatially or from multiple map locations.

Geo/Spatial Linking

Geographic and spatial-centric applications such as GIS, CAD, and BIM, are everywhere in modern construction and real-time logistics. Amp's 3D client natively integrates maps and locations, allowing you to unify location-based linking, spatially precise environments, and first-class 3D asset integration.

Extensibility

The less obvious value of Amp is its extensibility. The amp.App interface is flexible and unrestricted, allowing you to expose anything compatible with Go. This means any Go, C, C++, or any native static or dynamic module can be wrapped and push a 3D-native UX (with stock or custom assets).

Integration Overview

This repo is lightweight and dependency-free so it can be added to your project without consequence.

At a high level:

1. Add amp.SDK to your Go project. If you want to expose additional functionality, implement your own amp.App.
2. Clone amp.host (not yet public) and include your amp.App, similar to how a library in a C project registers a static or dynamic dependency.
3. Build amp.host with your additions embedded within it.
4. In your Unity or Unreal app, link in amp.host.lib and add the Amp UX runtime support glue.
5. On startup, amp.Host instantiates registered amp.App instances as needed. During runtime, amp.host.lib dispatches URL requests addressed to your app and are "pinned".
6. The Amp UX runtime manages the user's experience of currently pinned URLs while providing a toolbox of extendable "stock" and "skinnable" components. Pinned requests receive state updates until they are canceled.

Points of Interest

api.tag.go	versatile tagging and hash scheme that is AI and search friendly
api.task.go	goroutine wrapper inspired by a conventional parent-child process model
api.app.go	defines how state is requested, pushed, and merged
api.host.go	types and interfaces that amp.Host implements