AUGMENTED
REALITY AND
VIRTUAL REALITY IN
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Virtual Reality in Construction
■ Virtual Reality (VR) technology could be used in conjunction with three-dimensional
(3D) modelling to improve communication in vocational training, education, and
professional practice.
■ Models for the construction process were created using 3D modelling and virtual reality
techniques.
■ VR technology has been used to make 4D models more realistic, allowing interaction
with the environment depicting the construction site.
■ 4D models are being used to improve production, analysis, design management, and
construction information in various phases and regions of construction projects.
How is Virtual reality used in construction?
■ People working in all aspects of the construction process can benefit from virtual reality.
– Heavy Reduction in site visits.
– Fixing problems before they occur.
– Customer experience gets improved.
– Betterment in safety and training.
– Collaboration gets upgraded.
– Improvisation in accessibility and quality.
Benefits of Virtual Reality in Construction
■ Lessen the amount of time spent on revisions.
■ Make the content reusable.
■ Make training more secure.
■ Increase team member involvement.
■ Increase team cohesion.
■ Cost and material savings.
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Limitations of Virtual Reality in Construction
■ The price of VR devices.
■ VR software size.
■ Locomotion Sickness.
■ The weight of virtual reality gadgets.
■ A lack of awareness of one’s surroundings.
■ The Risk of Addiction.
■ Eye Damage Possibilities and Vergence Conflict.
■ Inability to comprehend.
Applications of Virtual Reality in Construction
■ Improvements to the Downtown Area.
■ A large hotel structures.
■ Hospital.
■ Educational Institutions.
■ Apartments.
■ Railways.
■ Airports.
Augmented reality in construction
■ Augmented reality (AR) merges the actual and virtual worlds.
■ Unlike its virtual reality counterpart, AR does not provide an immersive, out-of-body
experience.
■ Instead, it usually entails using goggles, masks, or glasses to layer computer interfaces on
top of the physical world.
■ It’s a new, adaptable technology quickly gaining favor in the business since its applications
range from cooperation to design to safety.
■ AR combines the real and virtual worlds into a single immersive experience.
■ AR projects 3D visuals onto a person’s actual environment as they walk around space
using a smartphone or an AR headset.
■ The AR technology can offer users geographical information via GPS and cameras,
providing relevant information as the user walks around the worksite.
How Augmented reality used in construction?
■ Recent uses of Augmented Reality in engineering have aided in increasing performance in
several aspects of the construction and engineering domains, ranging from comparing the
‘as-planned’ with the ‘as-built’ condition of projects to enhancing cooperation prospects.
– Architectural Drawings Translated Effortlessly.
– Superior Development and Design.
– Error Reduction in the Construction Process.
– Construction Projects Should Be Better Marketed.
– Time is money, and saving valuable man-hours is a good thing.
– Reviewing Project Designs is Simple.
– Cost-cutting in general.
Benefits of Augmented Reality in construction
■ Rework and downtime losses are kept to a minimum.
■ Project management and teamwork have improved.
■ Essential data can be incorporated into the real world conditions.
■ Higher accessibility through mobile phones.
■ Enhances the user’s current perception of reality.
■ Higher efficiency in completion of tasks.
■ Smooth transition along the reality-virtuality continuum.
■ Enhance collaborative tasks.
■ Models can be tested before production.
Limitations of Augmented Reality in
construction
■ Immature core virtual reality technology.
■ Privacy control.
■ The lack of data portability between AR environments.
■ Huge margin of errors due to error in GPS.
■ Absence of open standards.
Application of Augmented Reality in
construction
■ Visualization of building models.
■ Construction site planning.
■ Construction management.
■ Training.
■ Subsurface infrastructure visualization.
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