NVIDIA’s New Holodeck Caters to AEC Professionals
Emily Pollock posted on August 14, 2018 |
A still from NVIDIA’s advertisement for the latest release of its VR collaboration platform, Holodeck. (Image courtesy of NVIDIA.)
This week, NVIDIA released the latest edition of NVIDIA Holodeck, a collaborative virtual reality (VR) platform.
Holodeck (yes, named after that holodeck) is a VR environment that lets people collaborate on product design, putting them “in the same room” to look at and change designs, even when they’re on different sides of the world. In this VR environment, your co-collaborators show up as little bots with Daft Punk-like faces, so it’s easy to see where they are and what changes they are making to the model.
The tool has become popular among engineers, architects and construction professionals looking to visualize buildings, so the newest version of Holodeck includes features explicitly designed for them.
One of these features is Holotable (pictured above), a podium that lets you view scale models. The table also lets you toggle through the layers of models made in Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, providing a closer and more accurate look inside of buildings. And, on the more aesthetic side, designers can play with light and shadow, changing the way these elements fall to simulate how their designs might look at different times of day (or night).
The new Holotable feature also makes it easier to navigate around models, and…