I’m standing over a table, looking at a 3D architectural model of a room. Then I hit a button, and suddenly I’m inside the model itself. I can walk around, get a feel for the space, see how the ...

It’s time for the profession to prepare. New software and hardware platforms are emerging that allow immersive environment representation—aka virtual reality, or VR—along with gestural modeling, or ...

Virtual reality, or VR, has had many lives. Expensive and clunky, VR, whose goal is creating an immersive spatial experience from data, never gained a foothold outside of academia, the military, or ...

Advancements in computer technologies have enabled architects to model their designs with precision and detail. Augmented reality technologies have helped the industry leap ahead, giving practitioners ...

IrisVR is building a suite of software that can transform any digital 3D model into an immersive Virtual Reality experience, instantly. While there are a broad number of applications for such a ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — Douglas J. Boser has already walked through rooms and turned on light switches, but construction on the building won’t begin until spring. Sitting in a comfortable chair in the ...

San Jose, CA and Waltham, MA –– October 29, 2007 –– CoWare ®, Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, and Carbon Design ...