VIDEO: INTRODUCING A VAST SEARCHABLE 3D ASSET DATABASE

Web giant Google has unveiled a new resource called Poly, a searchable database featuring all sorts of 3D objects and scenery, made to help with augmented and virtual reality development. The powerful tool is free to use and allows developers to find any object that they can use as-is, or even modify them as needed. Poly allows uploading of OBJ and MTL files made in almost any 3D suite and is integrated with Vive and Oculus apps, Tilt Brush and Blocks, from the ground up. This means that anybody can use these two platforms and particularly drag and drop creations in and out of Poly. 

At the moment there are thousands of Poly creations designed by Google, mostly in the same low-poly, expressively simple art style found in the Cardboard and Daydream demos. Anybody with a Google account can upload files to Poly and there does not seem to be any sort of quality monitoring, so 3D artists of all experience levels are seemingly welcome to give their creations to the community at large. 

Poly is part of an ongoing effort by Google to make the development of 3D experiences, especially AR and VR ones, as easy as possible. These efforts to push the standards along have resulted in the rise of the aforementioned Tilt Brush and Blocks tools. 

Google's innovations and creations from outside sources, such as the easy to use InstaVR suite, have made VR and AR development incredibly accessible to anybody with an interest in creating.

Have a look at the Poly video below: