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  The Makers of Monument Valley are Creating Architectural Puzzles in VR

  … requirements of the devices for which they are developed. “We talk a lot about being platform-perfect,” says Wong, in conclusion. “That’s core to our philosophy. Touch input is great for a sense of intimacy, because you’re directly touching the game world.” Whatever Ustwo Games does next, it will be doing it …

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  New VR Headset Lets Architects Step Into Their Designs

  … for designers to create their own VR content,” says Kemp. “I want to make it possible for anyone to create and experience the spaces they are dreaming up in their mind.” Support the Spacemaker VR Kickstarter Campaign here! This article, by Guy Horton, originally appeared on ArchDaily as “The Indicator: Kickstarting Architecture’s Virtual Future."

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  Disrupting Reality: How VR Is Changing Architecture's Present and Future

  … but it’s representative of what’s really there.” Indeed, the merger of the physical and virtual worlds is perhaps the most exciting—and revolutionary—possibility for VR/AR technologies in the architecture profession. One day, architects could design entirely in a VR environment; those files could be directly used in digital fabrication; contractors could …

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  2016 Was A Watershed Year for VR in Architecture and Design

  … present large-scale projects to citizens and garner community feedback. But VR’s potential isn’t just client-facing; it could forever alter the design process itself. Gensler, a pioneer in VR research, hopes that its architects around the world will soon be able to meet virtually, not on a screen but standing together …

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  Using VR/AR/MR to Craft the Next Generation of Designed Environments

  … the development of these tools and technologies. It is our responsibility to apply our expertise in creating a sense of place in the physical world to also ensure success, comfort, and usability in the virtual realm. Kat Schneider, digital design application specialist, IA Interior Architects Courtesy IA Interior Architects You may also enjoy “Building …

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  Multimedia Office Systems Are Retooling Collaboration

  … lobby as the architecture fi rm’s public interface, this system includes a touch-enabled table where users can view content produced by any of Gensler’s 43 global locations. Once selected, the content is displayed on one of Planar’s Clarity Matrix MX55 video wall displays. Courtesy Andrejs Eduards Lazdins and Planar Lifesize …

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  … TechnologyProducts10 Architecture and Design Books Worth Adding to Your Reading ListMETROPOLIS rounds up the best new books on architecture, urbanism, design, and sustainability. Projects3 Adaptive Reuse Projects Prioritize Flexibility for the FutureThe bigger challenge in preserving historically significant buildings isn’t in giving them a second life—it’s preparing them for later reincarnations …

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  New Retrospective Glimpses the Man Behind the Maison de Verre

  … Verre, 1928-1932. Courtesy Mark Lyon The second-floor balcony of the house that Pierre Chareau designed for Robert Motherwell in East Hampton, New York, 1947. Courtesy Miguel Saco Furniture and Restoration, Inc., New York Pierre Chareau, Office, 1924, pochoir print; 8 13/16 x 10 x 7/16 in. Private Collection. Courtesy John …

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  This Kaleidoscopic Exhibition Explores How Augmented Reality Will Alter Buildings, IRL and via URL

  … do need a PC) and it will evolve over time as Space Popular’s work on VR and architecture continues. If their predictions are anything to go by, this may be a first glimpse into the cities of our future. You might also like, "Disrupting Reality: How VR Is Changing Architecture’s Present and Future."

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  2016: The Year In Review

  … Effect This has been a great year for parks in America—but is this new generation of High Line-inspired parks embedding social injustice into our cities? Q&A: Beatrice Galilee The Met curator looks back at the year in architecture. Design Is the World Despite its dazzling, hyperbolic rhetoric, the third Istanbul Design …