Category: Extended Reality
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AEC Business Newsletter April 2020
As we’re now doing as much work remotely as possible, the value of having digital technologies has become indisputable. I think that today’s experiences will also speed up the adoption of process automation in construction. Automation needs data. It has to be accessible and in a format that makes it useful. Recently, I’ve talked with experts from…
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Fologram and All Brick Introduce an Entirely New Way of Building in AR
Fologram and All Brick have invented an entirely new way of building in augmented reality (AR) to improve precision, reliability, and control over the construction of part of the Royal Hobart Hospital. The footage from the Hololens headsets of bricklayers shows exactly how a team used the AR application. The bricklayers built several hundred meters…
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An Infrastructure Construction VR Game
The InfraBIM Open 2020 conference featured top experts, case studies, and solutions for digitalized infrastructure construction. The exhibition area showcased the latest in digital solutions and technologies. FCG Finnish Consulting Group and Softability Oy had created a virtual reality game that I tried out. You navigate a ship through a lock on the Saimaa Canal…
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The Road to a 3D Digital World in Australia
In the last six months have been spending a lot of my time down-under, thanks to my lovely partner who decided to improve my air mile elite status by accepting a job in Melbourne. Even though I have been visiting Australia for almost ten years, I must admit I have never been involved much with…
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HoloBuilder Announces Partnership with Boston Dynamics
HoloBuilder announced today their partnership with Boston Dynamics and released SpotWalk, a new product integration with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. The new partnership brings autonomous 360° reality capture to construction projects, addressing core productivity inefficiencies that continue hampering the construction industry. A Walking Robot Captures 360° Images Controlled by HoloBuilder’s SpotWalk app, the Boston Dynamics’…
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Three Advancements for a Seamless Future in VR
Over the last few years, one of the biggest questions looming over the discussion of VR has been user adoption: “When will VR become a viable platform?” Development of VR hardware has advanced significantly, service platforms have been built around that hardware to deliver content to users, and yet it still seems that VR is…
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7 Days of News – Week 45
Here are our picks from the latest construction technology news. “You look at 5G wireless, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), these are going to be three key technologies for your industry,” Michael Hainsworth, executive producer of Futurithmic and co-host of the Geeks & Beats podcast, told the audience at a talk billed Future Forward:…
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Varjo, the Human Eye-Resolution VR company, Opens US Headquarters
Finland-based Varjo opens its first US office in Arlington, Virginia. The technology leader in industrial-grade VR/XR headsets, today announced the opening of its US headquarters in the Washington D.C. area. The company, which is celebrating three years of business this month, has seen unprecedented momentum to date in the industrial virtual reality space having brought…
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10 Tech Startups Powering the Construction Site with AI
In the coming years, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will automate many construction tasks in unprecedented ways. These 10 startups are in in the vanguard of turning AI into a value-adding technology for construction sites. Open Space OpenSpace is a photo- and video-based documentation tool– “Google Streetviews” of your jobsite. OpenSpace’s proprietary Vision Engine platform allows you to…
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How VR and AR Will Help in Remote Expert Assistance
The speed and quality of maintenance and repair are critical in the modern, technology-packed built environment. Consequently, these were considered in an experimental project that tested how remote expert assistance using VR and AR technologies could help improve the productivity of field service. I’m in a hall overlooking white mountain tops. It’s snowing. In front…