AR in the Architecture Domain: State of the Art

Russo, Michele

doi:10.3390/app11156800

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“…Architecture and engineering design [17,21,23,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] Building construction [17,[20][21][22][23][24][25]27,[29][30][31][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] Building operation and management [17,18,21,23,26,28,54, Selected articles concerning XR application in building operation and management were further divided into VR and AR/MR categories, each articulated in different domains according to their possible use in building facility management as shown in Table…”

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“…Nevertheless, AR and MR, the latter in particular, are finding numerous and promising applications in the design phase as well [17,39,40], concerning, in particular, building renovations, infrastructure design, urban planning [17], digital fabrication in architecture [41], virtual tours, and in situ walkthroughs (for instance overlaying virtual reconstruction on heritage sites to enrich cultural tours) [42][43][44], or for an augmented user experience in art and architecture exhibitions (such as for example the Exploring SongEun Art Space exhibition in Seoul by Herzog and de Meuron of November 2021), engaging attendees in a combination of physical and virtual worlds in which virtual agents can be interacted with as one would with real world counterparts [45].…”

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Extended Reality for Smart Building Operation and Maintenance: A Review

Casini

2022

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The operation and maintenance (O&M) of buildings and infrastructure represent a strategic activity to ensure they perform as expected over time and to reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs at the urban and building scale. With the increasing diffusion of BIM, IoT devices, and AI, the future of O&M is represented by digital twin technology. To effectively take advantage of this digital revolution, thus enabling data-driven energy control, proactive maintenance, and predictive daily operations, it is vital that smart building management exploits the opportunities offered by the extended reality (XR) technologies. Nevertheless, in consideration of the novelty of XR in the AECO sector and its rapid and ongoing evolution, knowledge of the specific possibilities and the methods of integration into the building process workflow is still piecemeal and sparse. With the goal to bridge this gap, the article presents a thorough review of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies and applications for smart building operation and maintenance. After defining VR, AR, and MR, the article provides a detailed review that analyzes, categorizes, and summarizes state-of-the-art XR technologies and their possible applications for building O&M along with their relative advantages and disadvantages. The article concludes that the application of XR in building and city management is showing promising results in enhancing human performance in technical O&M tasks, in understanding and controlling the energy efficiency, comfort, and safety of building and infrastructures, and in supporting strategic decision making for the future smart city.

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Extended Reality for Smart Building Operation and Maintenance: A Review

Casini

2022

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“…In this paper, we discussed how VR/AR can be used to share non-verbal cues (e.g., gestures, avatar, and virtual replicas) to improve remote collaboration on procedural tasks. These tasks are typical cooperative work in many industrial contexts and construction, for instance, remote maintenance or repair in real-time (Kurillo and Bajcsy 2013 ; de Belen et al 2019 ; Ens et al 2019 ; Barroso et al 2020 ; Russo 2021 ; Wang et al 2021a ).…”

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BeHere: a VR/SAR remote collaboration system based on virtual replicas sharing gesture and avatar in a procedural task

Wang

Billinghurst

et al. 2023

Virtual Reality

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In this paper, we focus on the significance of remote collaboration using virtual replicas, avatar, and gesture on a procedural task in industry; thus, we present a Virtual Reality (VR)/Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) remote collaboration system, BeHere, based on 3D virtual replicas and sharing gestures and avatar. BeHere enables a remote expert in VR to guide a local worker in real-time to complete a procedural task in the real-world. For the remote VR site, we construct a 3D virtual environment using virtual replicas, and the user can manipulate them by using gestures in an intuitive interaction and see their partners’ 3D virtual avatar. For the local site, we use SAR to enable the local worker to see instructions projected onto the real-world based on the shared virtual replicas and gestures. We conducted a formal user study to evaluate the prototype system in terms of performance, social presence, workload, and ranking and user preference. We found that the combination of visual cues of gestures, avatar, and virtual replicas plays a positive role in improving user experience, especially for remote VR users. More significantly, our study provides useful information and important design implications for further research on the use of gesture-, gaze- and avatar-based cues as well as virtual replicas in VR/AR remote collaboration on a procedural task in industry. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10055-023-00748-5.

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“…The market forecast for technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) is expected to reach 30.7 billion USD in 2021, increasing to close to 300 billion USD by 2024 [4], positioning these technologies as interesting targets to explore. There are several applications of theses technologies from AR systems [5]. There are also applications from MR systems that integrate virtual with collaborative interaction methods to facilitate enhanced cultural learning in virtual heritage [6].…”

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An Evaluation of the Effects of a Virtual Museum on Users’ Attitudes towards Cultural Heritage

2022

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(1) Background: Several opportunities have appeared for the dissemination of culture and heritage thanks in part to the widespread use of information and communications technologies. Virtual museums have appeared as innovative technological products but often lack an evaluation of the impact that they have and their success in achieving their purpose. In this sense, this work seeks to evaluate the impact of a virtual museum on users’ attitudes toward cultural heritage. (2) Methods: We used a factorial design of 2 (direction of thoughts: positive vs. negative) × 2 (presence level: high vs. low) × 2 (virtual museum vs. interactive website). (3) Results: Attitudes toward heritage can change as a function of a multimedia experience, thought favorability, and presence. In a virtual museum, when general attitudes are evaluated, a sense of high psychological presence reduces the effect that thoughts (especially when negative) have on attitudes. However, in the case of visiting an interactive website, the effect of the direction of thoughts on attitudes occurred regardless of conditions of high or low presence. Similar tendencies are observed for specific attitudinal objects. (4) Conclusion: A virtual museum can have different effects depending on the interaction of important variables from the virtual reality literature and not only the classic main effects. Recommendations for interventions and future practical and theoretical work are presented.

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AR in the Architecture Domain: State of the Art

Cited by 32 publications

References 214 publications

Extended Reality for Smart Building Operation and Maintenance: A Review

Extended Reality for Smart Building Operation and Maintenance: A Review

BeHere: a VR/SAR remote collaboration system based on virtual replicas sharing gesture and avatar in a procedural task

An Evaluation of the Effects of a Virtual Museum on Users’ Attitudes towards Cultural Heritage

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