A year ago I still thought VR was an interesting experiment – more toy than tool.
How things have changed in a year.
If you attended AU a few weeks ago it seemed that you couldn’t turn left or right without running into a software provider that had VR ready solution as part of their offerings. From early design visualization through post-construction AR, the technology has come a long way and finally seems to becoming well suited to being a viable part of your BIM workflow.
At the moment it seems we’re using AR and VR to improve existing workflow (new tools doing old things). But in less than a decade I suspect we’ll start a transition to new kinds of workflow that previously didn’t exist (new tools doing new things).
Think of cell phones. The first cell phones were for improving existing limitations: making calls without being restricted to location. Now? I don’t think I use my cell phone for making calls more than 10% of the time. The rest of the time I’m…