Tag Archives: virtual reality
Virtual Reality and City Planning
Engaging citizens to participate actively in urban development projects can often be difficult. But rendering designs in 3D city models and transforming them into immersive virtual reality spaces might just do the trick. When it comes to reshaping cities and constructing new structures, modern architects consider public participation an essential part of creating sustainable and...
New Digital World Needs Data
Next-generation surveyors require specialized education and training to fill the role of geospatial data specialists. Many emerging geospatial applications, such as digital twins, 3D modeling, monitoring, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles, are based on big digital datasets. Building a 3D digital world starts with accurate data that ties to a point on the ground, so...
Positively Surveying: A 2020 Vision for Geospatial Professions
I’m imagining a world. It’s not a dream. It’s coming, and soon. One in which we bring data from the field and step into a virtual reality (VR) environment made by our data points that we uploaded to the cloud. Where we’re crafting and sharing our surveys in 3D and real-time, in collaboration with surveyors...
Sponsored: Making Sustainable Growth – Attainable
Land Surveyors have always been at the forefront of technology, beginning with the first electronic distance meter, the HP 3800 in 1975, to today’s robotic stations. In the field, Land Surveying has enjoyed more technical progress than many other non-medical fields. Yet, in the office, survey plans and subdivision plans appear the same as if...
xyHt Magazine January 2018 Issue
Click on the cover below to view the January 2018 issue of xyHt magazine. Articles in the issue include (links will turn live throughout January): Infrastructure, BIM, and the Brothers Bentley: Meeting the needs of the global infrastructure boom, Bentley Systems has forged technology partnerships; moved to erase the workflow barriers among surveying, engineering, and construction; and...
The Problem with GIS and Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality
Over the last few years, altered realities technology has exploded, and now, with the introduction of Apple’s ARKit and Android’s ARCore, AR, MR, and VR are well within the reach of the non-developer. I can confirm this as I’ve created a few AR apps and MR apps myself over the last few months, with no experience...
