In the Architect Magazine feature 5 Steps to Make VR a Reality in Your Practice, PAYETTE’s 3D Visualization Designer David Hamel discusses how we incorporated the new tool into our practice.
VR has become an important part of our design process, with more teams now utilizing VR at all stages of design. We have enabled teams to make adjustments with perfect accuracy when analyzing what a visitor will see when progressing through a landscape and over a very crucial pedestrian bridge. VR also gives our clients a chance to experience the space and better understand how it will function and what they will see throughout their daily use in the future.
In the Architect Magazine article, David encourages practices interested in getting started with VR to “jump in and put a headset on.” He also predicts Augmented Reality, with its potential to overlay BIM data on construction sites, will become even more important in the AEC industry.
Read the article.
Related:
An Addition to the Architectural Toolbox: Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality at PAYETTE
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.