Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality
For Architectural Design
The outcome of the architecture design depends on the architects’ interpretations, perceptions, and prejudices. As each design team member may have individual perceptions of the design problem and ideas of how to solve it, it is important that all the involved personnel understand, participate, communicate, and collaborate with each other to obtain a high-quality outcome of the design process. Communication difficulties mainly occur as a result of different cultures and insufficient collaboration and information sharing during the process. In this context, Virtual Reality (VR) has been shown to offer an efficient communication platform, due to its ability to navigate through 3D scenes from a first-person perspective.
For Exhibition
Virtual and Augmented Reality are promising technologies that can have wide impact on many domains. One of such domains is museum exhibitions. Most museums do not have the space and resources required to exhibit their whole collections. In addition, the nature and fragility of some objects prevent museum from making them available to the public. Also, the interaction of visitors with the exhibited objects is very restricted, e.g. they cannot look at the objects from all angles, compare them, or study them in different contexts. In this respect, Virtual and Augmented Reality can offer a great help. These technologies provide solutions that enable visualization of 3D digital models of museum artifacts in both virtual and real environments. They also allow visitors to interact with the models in a variety of ways.