Using Game Engines in AEC
Why Use Game Engines Videos and VR walkthroughs will never be a perfect recreation of physically inhabiting a building, but they can also...
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VR in your Design Firm – 101
Why ?what hardware?? is the wrong question when it comes to XR At Bevel, our holidays are always punctuated with the emails from our...
Exciting BIM and VR technology unlock promising potential
Autodesk University was quite the success last week, but we’re just getting started. Industry Insights by UNIFI invited Simon and Logan...
6 uses of XR in healthcare design
Hospitals are undoubtedly special building types. Between the number of regulations to the breadth of stakeholders, the job of a...
Hand Tracking in Virtual Reality with Leap Motion
To find the seamless user experience for our Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications we re-tested Leap Motion and were...
6 Tips for VR Collaboration
If you?re solving spatial problems, collaborative VR is the start of that solution. VR in architecture has been around for years???often...
Open Scale Test 2
Open Scale VR for Architecture: Test 2 A few weeks ago, we attempted to break out of room scale VR. Why? We wanted a teleportation-free...
Introducing: VR for AEC Workshops
When room-scale virtual reality hit the scene in 2015 it was lauded as a game changer for architecture. Now it’s almost 2018–headsets are...
Open Scale VR for Architecture
Thanks to CoMotion Labs?and Microsoft we got early access to a Windows Mixed Reality Developer Headset. We immediately began using it...
CAD to Virtual Reality: Instant VR Solutions
VR Made Easy VR isn?t just for big firms with big projects (and bigger budgets) anymore. Independent design studios are taking advantage...
Virtual Mockups for Ergonomics and Rapid Iteration
The last time I rearranged furniture in my house, we moved the couch to about 7 different locations before deciding on a spot 3 inches to...
Virtual Showrooms for Small Studios and Artisans
A Virtual View of a Lighting Showroom When your studio creates custom, site specific work, communicating design can be a challenge. Meet...
360 photos vs. Virtual Reality
Today I asked Logan Smith, BIM guru, licensed building architect and VR expert about whether 360 degree photos and videos count as...
Future of Architecture and Construction?
Architizer recently published this article about the future of architecture and construction being “all about virtual reality.” While the...
Virtual Reality for Campus Planning
As an architect, Bevel’s Logan Smith used Virtual Reality as a design tool on the early stages of a multifamily housing project which...
PDX Digital Construction Summit
Last weekend, the Bevel team attended the Digital Construction Summit in Portland and came away with 30 pages of notes written in Maret’s...
Iterative Design in VR
Room scale VR can replace expensive scale physical mockups. Here’s a case study on how one hospital used VR in their design process:...