Yet compared to other industries (automotive, aircraft, petrochemical, etc.), the design and construction industry has been slow to embrace the tremendous opportunities afforded by this technology. Architectural and engineering drawings, though CAD produced, remain essentially dumb images, limited to conveying information only visually to other parties (Gissen, 2002).
The next design development step was to establish virtual reality imaging capability that allows interactive development of room layouts jointly with an owner. This is a practical, hands-on interactive process that can be conducted in a digital studio theater or ...