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Tom I remember you asking about companies using VR technology. Below is a still from SMEC’s internal blog.
The image is a still from a VR model developed by Snowbal’s programmers as part of a JV with SMEC to push the boundaries of their current VR technology. From an inital glance it looks pretty convincing.
We have a team of programmers based in the office as well as VR technology including a driving simulator (think arcade racing car set up). This enables Clients to get a immersive VR presentation of a design or for the engineers to asses and improve different design options.
I can see this being really useful for highway/rail/building and services design. Is anyone experimenting with this on Phase 3?
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Bet the software engineers earn more than the civil or structural engineers!
Interestingly the RAC and Inf are doing quite a lot with modelling because they can rehearse battles in advance. It might be that data capture moves from survey to other arms…
Bet the software engineers get paid more that the civil or structural engineers at similar grades
Sadly I think the RAC and Inf are more interested in this than RE and are likely to require data capture to support it such that they might even steal the march on this in place of survey.
OK no comment. aLL gone blamk then repeat posts !! I love WordPress…
Matt Fry and his STRE have been using 3D models from LiDAR / Photogrammetry, importing to Revit and subsequently looking at options to export through Unity. This then allows models to be explored through in service VR. A really interesting space that once the RE have gained 3D, sensors, processing and mass will be a game changer.
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