Visualizing a New Sustainable World: Toward the Next Generation of Virtual Reality in the Built Environment

What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink how we use the set of collaborative technologies to move toward a sustainable wo...

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Autores principales:	Dragana Nikolić, Jennifer Whyte
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	virtual reality interdisciplinary practice environmental challenges conceptual review Building construction TH1-9745
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/934c32e9e56e453a877f8cdfd1102baa
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:934c32e9e56e453a877f8cdfd1102baa2021-11-25T17:00:13ZVisualizing a New Sustainable World: Toward the Next Generation of Virtual Reality in the Built Environment10.3390/buildings111105462075-5309https://doaj.org/article/934c32e9e56e453a877f8cdfd1102baa2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/11/11/546https://doaj.org/toc/2075-5309What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink how we use the set of collaborative technologies to move toward a sustainable world. We propose a new vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform for an interdisciplinary integration of the allied design, social, and environmental disciplines to address emerging challenges across the building sectors. We build this contribution through the following steps. First, we contextualize VR technologies within the changing digital landscape and underlying tensions in the built environment practices. Second, we characterize the difficulties that have arisen in using them to address challenges, illustrating our argument with leading examples. Third, we conceptualize VR configurations and explore underlying assumptions for their use across disciplinary scenarios. Fourth, we propose a vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform that can support built environment users in visualizing preferred futures. We conclude by providing directions for research and practice.Dragana NikolićJennifer WhyteMDPI AGarticlevirtual realityinterdisciplinary practiceenvironmental challengesconceptual reviewBuilding constructionTH1-9745ENBuildings, Vol 11, Iss 546, p 546 (2021)
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description	What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink how we use the set of collaborative technologies to move toward a sustainable world. We propose a new vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform for an interdisciplinary integration of the allied design, social, and environmental disciplines to address emerging challenges across the building sectors. We build this contribution through the following steps. First, we contextualize VR technologies within the changing digital landscape and underlying tensions in the built environment practices. Second, we characterize the difficulties that have arisen in using them to address challenges, illustrating our argument with leading examples. Third, we conceptualize VR configurations and explore underlying assumptions for their use across disciplinary scenarios. Fourth, we propose a vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform that can support built environment users in visualizing preferred futures. We conclude by providing directions for research and practice.
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title_short	Visualizing a New Sustainable World: Toward the Next Generation of Virtual Reality in the Built Environment
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Visualizing a New Sustainable World: Toward the Next Generation of Virtual Reality in the Built Environment

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