What is it about?
This chapter aims to investigate the impact of Virtual Reality (VR) in the fields of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) in both academia and industry as two interdependent and interlinked domains. This chapter is depicting the importance of the utilization of VR technology in both the AEC education and practice. As decision making in the AEC industry involves several stakeholders, starting from professionals to the public, VR makes it possible to simplify the interaction amongst all of them, and therefore better decisions could be realized.
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Why is it important?
In architectural education, Virtual Reality (VR) is principally the technology that aims at immersing the students inside a virtual 1:1 scale space where they can experience and navigate that space as if it is a real-world to their senses. VR is increasingly gaining momentum in architectural design education in a way that helps with better preparing the graduating students for industry. By investing in working within, an as immersive VR experience and dedicating needed time and energy in doing that, these graduating students as architects or architectural engineers will be more capable of designing built environments that reflect considerable awareness of architectural and building systems of quality and integration. Immersive VR technologies are strongly expected to prevail in the near future, changing the nature of the architectural design discipline and its related educational methods (Rodriguez 2019) forever. While the immersive VR tool can significantly help the students develop their design projects a more articulated manner, it can also inform them about the famous architectural works of pioneering architects through virtual tours around the world to explore various architectural styles and forms from the comfort of a design studio.
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This page is a summary of: Virtual Reality Technology Trends Current and Future Applications, an Interdisciplinary Overview, March 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1201/9781003051381-2.
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