"Steve Jobs famously said that computers are like a bicycle for the mind. VR is very much a bicycle for our spatial cognition." Spivey Lipsey defends the value of Virtual Reality in construction combined with BIM production.
With a minimal additional cost, we can improve the accuracy of all the immersive aspects of 3D models, ease the sequencing of elements and link schedule information to geometry. And, of course, it also helps to align the design to client expectations.
Over two centuries ago, German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quipped that “Few people have the imagination for reality.”
Maybe that’s why virtual and augmented reality technologies, which allow people to see structures and spaces before they’re built, are making significant inroads into the construction industry today.
Associate Antonio Rodriguez was featured on Construction Executive, speaking about how to leverage data through building information modeling (BIM).
In the article Antonio explains that the AEC industry has a bad habit of storing information in silos, and that it still hasn't caught up to enabling a "single source of truth".
He described how committing to a single source of truth would pay off, and highlighted:
