If you are a student(including junior high and senior high), you can sign up for AWS Educate account, and AWS will give you free credits to practice by yourselves (Remember! You need to inform your teachers that you need to access to get into the “classroom” in AWS Educate!).
What is Amazon Sumerian?
The link above is my scene that two hosts can have a whole conversation with each other. You can use your mouse to click on the man, and the scene will be triggered by your mouse(turn on your speaker).
Amazon Sumerian is a service that can easily create and run 3D scene, augmented reality(AR), and virtual reality(VR) in just a minute.
What benefits do I get from Sumerian?
You can just log in to your AWS account on your browser, and you can access almost every service created by AWS. Therefore, with cloud service thriving, you don’t need to purchase any software applications, such as Adobe, 3D Max, Maya, which might cost you lots of money but you just utilize these tools once; instead, you only need to have few tools:
1. Good connection of the Internet
2. A screen, mouse, and keyboard
that enough! And now, you can create a complete 3D/AR/VR application on your own.
Case1: Students🧑🎓👩🎓
If you are a student, you can display the scene you created to the club in the school when some events need to be promoted or even demo your projects with Sumerian, such as creating a scene using Natural Language Understanding, which can quickly let viewers understand your idea and show them the authentic thoughts of your projects.
Case2: Product Demo🎮
If now you are creating a product, you don’t know how to demo to the customers? Don’t worry! Here is Amazon Sumerian! You can quickly create a scene on Amazon Sumerian and show your customers what kinds of situations will bring different outcomes. Therefore, customers can easily understand what they need and clearly define the requirements for engineers.
Actually, there are lots of situations that Amazon Sumerian can apply to, like multiple player games, etc., but I don’t elaborate on each one of them.
Let’s Get Started
0. Sign in to your AWS account.
1. Then, enter the keyword: Amazon Sumerian in the search box.
2. Click “Amazon Sumerian”, and enter into Amazon Sumerian
3. You have already entered the home page? Nice👌🏻
4. Click “Create new scene” to create your first scene
5. It will pop out an input box to set the name. (In here, naming my new scene “medium_Demo”)
5.1 After the process bar is finished, you will see the scene like the following picture.
5.2 If you accidentally close the browser and want to reopen the scene, you can “double click” the scene you created, or see the lower right panel, and click “open in the Editor”
In this scene, you will see:
1. Main scene: the scene that you will add your hosts, furniture, or every object to display to everyone.
2. Entity panel: stores the objects in your scene right now. (default setting: 2 Lights and 1 camera)
3. Assets panel: stores the objects, behaviors, etc. you imported, but it won’t show in the main scene unless you drag it into the scene.
4. Setting panel: you can set different actions, such as adding the speech function, adjusting the size of objects, etc.
5. Display bar: you can change the view you see in the main scene, and adjust the size of objects by the left 3 buttons (Translate, Rotate, Scale respectively)
6. Create Entity: you can choose different entities.
6.1 Clicking the button, you will see the right interface pop out and choose objects you want.
6.2 After an entity created, you can see the entity you just created in the entity panel 👍
6.3 If you want to delete an entity, you can click “the trash can icon” on the top of the entity panel.
7. Import Assets: you can import default objects in the scene
7.1 Choose the asset you want to add into the scene, or import assets designed by yourself/online.(on the right side)
7.2 After you add assets into your Sumerian interface, it won’t show as the entity directly in the scene. (In this demo, I add Cristine Hoodie to my assets)
7.3 You need to drag Cristine Hoodie(Hexagon shape) directly into your scene by your mouse.
7.4 Wait for it… 🚶, and shazam! Here comes the asset in your scene.
7.5 After you drag the asset into your scene, this asset will become to a entity, and add into entity panel simultaneously.
8. Resize objects
8.1 Click your object(in here is my host Cristine)
8.2 Right side setting panel will change, and click “Transform”
8.3 You will see a 3x3 matrix.
8.3.1 Attributes in the columns are x-axis, y-axis, z-axis respectively, which reflect to the color of the arrows on our object in the scene.
8.3.2 Attributes in the rows are Translate, Rotate, Scale repectively.
Translate: move your object in the scene.
Rotate: rotate your object with 360 degree.
Scale: resize your object into the size you want.
8.4 Choose Scale and set (x, y, z) to (5, 5, 5), and you will see the object in the scene becoming larger than you just created.
These is the end of Amazon Sumerian 101. Basically, in this chapter, I only introduce fundamental Amazon Sumerian Interface that you might use in the first.
I will keep writing Amazon Sumerian documents to let everyone know the power of AR/VR.
I am Mars Wang, now a member in AWS Educate Taiwan Cloud Ambassador Seeding Program.
If you are a student, AWS provides an awesome opportunity for you to learning Cloud knowledge, and I highly recommend you to sign up for it.
Click the link ➡️ Sign up for AWS Educate Account, and you can get various courses on this platform.
See you in the next story. 👍
#AWS #AWS Educate #Amazon #AR #VR
