Digitally Design the Physical World – XR for Architecture and Construction

I will be presenting next month at the Design Reality meetup event in Portland on using VR/AR in AEC Construction. While many think of a 3D immersive experience  and walkthroughs for the design phase, the really valuable sweet spot to AEC professionals is using AR/MR in construction to to plan, review, spot errors, and more. I will talk about the many ways Autodesk and our products generate and enable VR/AR/MR for many industries but then specifically speak about the AEC construction benefits and use Autodesk’s new office in Portland where we many of our tools and technologies as well as the Microsoft Hololens. I may also show some AR tools we have in the works. Joining me will be Phil Miller of Fortis construction, a project engineer on the Towne Storage construction build out for the Autodesk Portland office.

This is the new Autodesk Portland office in the renovated historic Towne Storage Building in Portland Central Eastside Industrial District. Autodesk HQ is in the Bay area,…