Editing ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/MeetsCOLLADAandOculusRiftS (section)

===Introduction===

The [https://www.oculus.com/rift-s/ Oculus Rift S] will import user-constructed 3D objects and allow you to place those objects in a high-quality, interactive virtual reality (VR) environment.  But the Oculus system does not accept COLLADA-formatted files directly.  Instead, it is set up to import files that are in a ".glb" format, which is the binary version of a "GL Transmission Format" ([https://www.khronos.org/gltf/ glTF]) file.  My original expectation was that, after I learned how to construct some intricate and astrophysically interesting 3D visual scenes using COLLADA &#8212; successfully accomplished (!) as illustrated above &#8212; all I would need to do is find a community tool that could translate a COLLADA (.dae) file into glTF (.glb).

Here are a few discoveries I made along the way:
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<li>The Windows 10 startup menu includes a "3D Viewer" app but, at least on my Lenova PC, it does not recognize .dae-formatted files.</li>
<li>The Windows 10 startup menu includes a "Paint 3D" application.  Using this app, it was very easy to "draw" some simple 3D geometric objects &#8212; such as a cube or a torus &#8212; and it was straightforward to export each object to a .glb-formatted file.</li>
<li>[https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html Adobe Photoshop] can read in a COLLADA (.dae) file and it is capable of exporting a 3D scene in .glb format.</li>
<li>[https://blackthread.io BlackThread.io] offers a browser-based tool, named "glTF Converter", that can ostensibly translate .dae-formatted files into .glb-formatted files.</li>
<li>The [https://www.khronos.org Khronos Group]'s "COLLADA to glTF" conversion tool can be located under [https://github.com/KhronosGroup/COLLADA2GLTF/ the group's name on GitHub].</li>
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