{"id":4809,"date":"2011-11-15T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/curtin-professor-changing-cities-using-virtual-reality\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:48","slug":"curtin-professor-changing-cities-using-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/curtin-professor-changing-cities-using-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"911±¬ÁÏÍø professor changing cities using virtual and augmented reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While it may once have been just the stuff of pipe dreams in the 80s and 90s, a 911±¬ÁÏÍø academic is using virtual and augmented reality to take architectural design into groundbreaking new territory.<\/p>\n

Professor Xiangyu Wang has over ten years experience in both virtual reality, in which a totally digital environment is created, and augmented reality, which sees digital information and images projected onto real-life surroundings.
\n\u201cSo in an office, you can see some digital, virtual joints on your wall, or you can see digital furniture lying on your floor,\u201d Professor Wang said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good thing for this is, think about construction sites: it\u2019s very critical to control the progress of a project. If we can actually project the proposed construction progress right onto the place where it is being constructed or built, then we can immediately recognise how behind or advanced the schedule is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Wang said while virtual reality may not be the all-encompassing part of everyday life as was once foreseen in the past, its presence is still visible.
\n\u201cIf you look at gaming or 3D cartoon movies, that\u2019s all virtual reality,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIndustry-wise, I know for example Western Australia already has a virtual reality system to train safety in underground mining.\u201d<\/p>\n

After working around the globe and more recently at universities on the east coast of Australia, Professor Wang was recently lured west to 911±¬ÁÏÍø\u2019s School of Built Environment due to Western Australian industry\u2019s booming need for expertise in virtual and augmented reality, and other technologies such as Building Information Modelling.<\/p>\n

Professor Wang said augmented reality\u2019s use in construction was expected by many to increase exponentially in the years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne prediction is that by 2014, 30 per cent of all outdoor construction workers will be equipped with some sort of augmented reality technology,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people say there will be a $300 million augmented reality market. AR allows us to still work in a real space, but have digital information around you to augment the way you interact with the virtual.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very vital, because we are all living and working in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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