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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

VR in the Construction Industry

How This 150-Year-Old Company Uses Virtual Reality

Virtual reality lets McCarthy Building Companies show clients a finished building before a single brick is laid.

John Gaudiosi | August 25, 2015


...And now the company is looking to the future by using virtual reality to improve its design and building process.

Construction Safety Training in Virtual Reality
Construction Safety Training in Virtual Reality--Brookfield Multiplex commission. Source: http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/research/projects/construction-safety-virtual-reality-training-brookfield-multiplex

<more at http://fortune.com/2015/08/25/mccarthy-construction-vr/; related links: http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/research/projects/construction-safety-virtual-reality-training-brookfield-multiplex (Construction Safety in Virtual Reality Training (Brookfield Multiplex). June 2, 2013) and http://geodatapoint.com/articles/view/how_3d_virtual_reality_is_changing_the_construction_industry (How 3D Virtual Reality is Changing the Construction Industry. October 2012)>

1 comment:

  1. Virtual reality can be extremely useful in the construction industry, which is often known as having a very high amount of inefficiency and low profit margins. Using a virtual environment, an organization can not only render the resulting structure in 3D but also experience them as they would in the real world.

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