A virtual reality supported 3D environment for engineering design review

Wolfartsberger, Josef; Zenisek, Jan; Sievi, Christoph; Silmbroth, Mathias

doi:10.1109/vsmm.2017.8346288

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“…The main challenges in the current elevator machine room planning-inefficient communication and predominant use of 2D drawings-have been encountered in other construction projects [1,2,19,24,50,52]. All benefits found in this study correspond to findings of many others that investigate single-user VR [18,52,54,66] and multi-user VR [3,19,20,67,68] in the AEC industry.…”

Section: Both Users and Business Can Benefit Significantly From Vr In The Aec Industrysupporting

confidence: 65%

“…Instead of speaking from abstraction, VR offers a tangible frame of references to reduce and eliminate understanding gaps between visual thinkers (designers) and non-visual thinkers (other stakeholders) [1,19]. Even though CAD/BIM tools offer 3D-modelling, they are often too complicated for non-engineering stakeholders with limited spatial understanding [1,50].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Multi-User Virtual Reality for Remote Collaboration in Construction Projects: A Case Study with High-Rise Elevator Machine Room Planning

Truong

Hölttä‐Otto

Becerril³

et al. 2021

Electronics

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Virtual Reality (VR) is considered among the major technologies to address the inefficient collaboration issue caused by the predominant use of 2D drawings in the construction industry. However, there is still a knowledge gap between researchers and practitioners about the actual benefits of VR in the business context. This paper presents the benefits of VR usage in four real-life high-rise elevator projects from the user and business perspectives. Four VR environments of actual machine rooms for planning were created and tested in a multi-user setting. Overall, users find VR more intuitive than conventional tools to enhance planning accuracy and collaboration. The results also show that VR brings significant economic savings and gains for business in the industry. Future study should investigate the real cost-benefit ratio of VR and streamline its technical implementation within construction projects. The research contributes to the current body of knowledge by providing real-life economic benefits and directions to address the research gap in both academia and industry to promote the wide adoption of VR.

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Section: Both Users and Business Can Benefit Significantly From Vr In The Aec Industrysupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: The Perceived Benefits Of Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-User Virtual Reality for Remote Collaboration in Construction Projects: A Case Study with High-Rise Elevator Machine Room Planning

Truong

Hölttä‐Otto

Becerril³

et al. 2021

Electronics

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“…Researchers also suggested that the benefits of VR might change with the complexity of the observed model. For example, Wolfartsberger et al (2017) argue that, since VR mitigates the spatial constraints, VR systems can be applied for reviewing large products. On the other hand, models with a lower level of complexity might diminish the advantages of VR in identifying issues (de Casenave and Lugo, 2017).…”

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Comparing Virtual Reality and Desktop Interface for Reviewing 3D CAD Models

Horvat

Škec

Martinec

et al. 2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Use of virtual reality (VR) is considered beneficial for reviewing 3D models throughout product design. However, research on its usability in the design field is still explorative, and previous studies are often contradictory regarding the usability of VR for 3D model review. This paper argues that the usability of VR should be assessed by analysing human factors such as spatial perception and taking into consideration the complexity of the reviewed product. Hence, a comparative evaluation study has been conducted to assess spatial perception in desktop interface-based and VR-based review of 3D models of products with different levels of complexity. The results show that participants in VR more could perceive the fit of user interface elements, and estimation of the model dimensions had a lower relative error than in desktop interface. It has been found that various sensory cues are used to perceive the model size and that the employed sensory cues depend on the level of complexity. Finally, it is proposed that differences between a desktop interface and VR for reviewing models are more evident when reviewing models of higher complexity levels.

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“…This can lead to a faster and easier development of 3D applications for design reviews. Besides the easy visualization of kinematic dependencies, the automatic conversion supports the representation of results from simulations (Wolfartsberger et al, 2017).…”

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Challenges of CAD conversion to 3D development environments with respect to kinematic dependencies

Braun¹,

Sliwinski²,

Hinckeldeyn³

et al. 2021

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Due to the increasing utilization of 3D development environments for industrial use cases by emerging topics like virtual reality, new challenges in the conversion of computer-aided-design (CAD) models to 3D models have become visible. Particularly, the conversion of the kinematic constraints turns out to be complex and requires extensive manual efforts. This paper discusses these challenges with a focus on the problems in the conversion of kinematic constraints. Further, a new approach is proposed and validated regarding the automated conversion of the kinematic constraints of an exemplary CAD model. Thereby, this work contributes to an accelerated and simplified development process of industrial applications within 3D development environments.

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A virtual reality supported 3D environment for engineering design review

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

Multi-User Virtual Reality for Remote Collaboration in Construction Projects: A Case Study with High-Rise Elevator Machine Room Planning

Multi-User Virtual Reality for Remote Collaboration in Construction Projects: A Case Study with High-Rise Elevator Machine Room Planning

Comparing Virtual Reality and Desktop Interface for Reviewing 3D CAD Models

Challenges of CAD conversion to 3D development environments with respect to kinematic dependencies

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