PV5 Mixed Reality Experience

This post has a dual purpose. I'm going to show a smart app Kia have made for the PV5 to explore the look of the vehicle in a mixed reality model. The app is really good and allows you to pick your desired PV5 model—cargo or passenger—and also a few variants yet to launch on the European market. You can also pick colour and RHD/LHD. If you aren't sure on model or colour, have a play; the app is free.

Before I mention more about the app, I will mention the other purpose. The Android version of the app downloads a full Unity 3D model that can be scaled and loaded into Unity PC software. If you are looking at creating modifications for a PV5, extracting this model will give you millimetre accuracy once scaled correctly. I will go into how to do all this in a separate post.
For now, let's look at the app itself. Whilst the Android version is the useful one for Unity model extraction, as it downloads and stores the model, the app is also available for iOS.

Official App Download Links

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kia.ProductMRExperience

iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/kia-product-mr-experience/id1519739536

Launching and Configuring

Open up the app and you can select from a variety of Kia models including the PBV range

Once on the PBV range, you can see the models on offer. This is what is currently on offer:

Let's pick the PV5 passenger in Steel Grey (what I have), but you can pick what model you have along with the colour, wheels and drive side.
Once that's all set, click next. The camera will open, and you can add a surface around you to place the PV5 on. If you want to see what it's going to look like on your driveway, head outside; if not, you can simply put it in your living room (lol). Either way, scan around with the camera until it's happy. This usually means letting the camera see a horizontal surface and a vertical surface to get a point of reference for rendering.

Once you have that, your PV5 is going to appear. You can walk around it, even get inside, and move the camera around. It's a really fun, fascinating, and useful app.  Here are a couple of grabs from the app of a Mixed Reality V5 outside my house:




















And a couple of views from inside a Mixed Reality PV5 outside my house:




















Have fun! A future post, I will show you how to extract the downloaded model from your phone for use in Unity software. Stay tuned!

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