From a mesh or a CAD file to something you can walk around.
MeshAR is the platform behind three kinds of augmented reality: an animated guide that answers questions on site, a showroom configurator that renders the product just configured, and step-by-step repair assistance on the real machine. The same three stages underneath — a different presentation on top.
Three stages, and only one of them is the same for everyone
Localization is genuinely shared. Ingest converges on geometry but not on meaning. Presentation barely converges at all — and that is the correct outcome, not a gap to close.
01
Ingest
A mesh from a 3D scan, or a CAD assembly. The geometry converges on one format; what does not converge is how much structure the source carries with it — and that is what decides which class can be built on top of it.
02
Localization
Anchoring the content into the real environment through ARCore. This is the one stage shared by all three classes, with a dedicated strategy for each: a tap on a surface, a physical marker, or an alignment onto the object itself.
03
Presentation
What the user actually sees: a character that speaks and points, a product with its finish swapped live, or a highlighted component with the next step of a procedure.
Three classes of content
What the platform is running today
Content is classified by its nature, never by the customer. It is the first question worth asking about a new project: it determines the source you need, the anchoring strategy, and where the cost is going to sit.
Class A
Animated guide
A character present in the room that tells you where you are and answers what you ask. The conversational engine behind it is the one already in production on Lares, brought into AR.
The product the customer just configured, at full scale, in the room where it will actually go. Variants, finishes and sizes swap live as the configuration changes.
A procedure anchored to the physical machine: the component to touch is highlighted where it really is — on a laptop, an industrial machine, an engine.
These numbers come from a phone in a garden, not from a datasheet
The acceptance thresholds were written down before the test, not after — otherwise whatever number comes out gets read as confirmation of what you hoped for. Seven runs on real hardware: indoors under artificial light, full sun, shade, dusk.
Lightweb.it has been my company since 1999. Banking systems first, then industrial automation, now augmented reality — and MeshAR sits exactly on the seam: it takes the CAD files of the second world and puts them where the third one needs them. You will be talking to the person who writes the code.
Tell me what you want to put in the room
A scanned venue, a product catalogue, a machine with a maintenance manual. The first useful question is always which of the three classes it falls into — and that takes one email.