What’s Your VR + Architecture Strategy?
Virtual Reality, once a curiosity for architectural use, has quickly become an indispensable tool for designing, constructing, developing, and finishing interiors of architectural projects all over the world.
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Architectural Visualization: Residential Condo for Virtual Reality [Oculus Rift DK2 Download Available]
This architectural visualization of a residential condominium real estate development is available to explore in virtual reality with Oculus Rift DK2. We translated and optimized this Revit / BIM model into Unity 5, then incorporated many features of our new Immerse...Revit and Oculus Rift via Unity3D: Experiencing BIM in Virtual Reality for Architectural Visualization
Oculus Rift completely changes the game. The very instant I stepped inside of our Revit model, I realized just how different the ‘in-world’ experience was from the drawings we were producing! It was a night and day difference.
Is architecture in video games really architecture?
Let’s quibble over semantics, shall we? Take a look at these two pictures: Which one would you identify as architecture?
Welcome to H-Town, OpenSim used to create a virtual neighborhood of sustainable modern houses
Hometta, a collective of award-winning architecture and design studios, will soon be launching an opensim-based grid called ‘H-Town,’ showcasing a virtual neighborhood modeled after the innovative, modern house plans they sell on their website. With...Discussing Unity, Realxtend, Opensim, Blue Mars and Second Life
This blog is all about discussing architecture and design in virtual worlds – so lets discuss it!
Cyberspace as a vibrant, social, interactive and collaborative ‘place’ for the already virtual discipline of architecture
Visiting an architectural masterpiece, or touring a building we helped design, is one of the many great rewards of architectural study and practice. Yet even if we think of ‘architecture’ as a rich, experiential, and tangible phenomenon, the daily...
Virtual Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, originally designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been reconstructed in the virtual world of Second Life by avatar ‘Wim Wendt’. It can be visited by clicking HERE. If you don’t have an account, click ‘Sign Up’ in...PRIM to BIM: The past, present and hopeful future of Architecture Islands
Thanks so much for all of the thoughts and comments many of you have shared. I’ve combined several comments to the original post in order to help clarify a few points. First of all – I’m definitely not leaving Second Life or virtual worlds!...Dispatch from Los Angeles
From DB Bailey (David Denton, AIA) July 3, 2009 We’ve been back from Egypt several weeks now. The preliminary construction documents are being completed at PUD Consultants’ office in Cairo. I’ve been getting up very early in the morning to have two or three hours of...