A summary of news from Forge DevCon 2017

For those of you who – like me – weren’t able to travel to Las Vegas for this year’s Forge DevCon, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the major news that I could extract over the wire. I’m sure there will be further blog posts from the Forge team summarising more of things I couldn’t see – not being there in person – but this will hopefully be of some use to people, at least.

To kick things off, I suggest reading this blog post. It talks about some high-level items, such as additions to the platform, the partnership with Dropbox and some Forge Fund investments.

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After that, it’s worth watching the DevCon keynotes. Here’s the main one, in two parts:


There are other keynotes, which you can watch at your leisure, but here are the big-ticket items from my personal perspective.

  • Reality Capture API
    • The back-end photo processing service used to power ReCap photo is now available for developers working with the Forge platform. I’m very excited about this:…

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