Professor John Messner demonstrates an Augment virtual model of a two-dimensional floor plan available through Residential Design Lab (RDL), a company concept created by fifth-year architectural engineering students Ryan Ward, Jared Baughman, and Giovanni Esposito for their AE 597: Virtual Facility Prototyping course. RDL focuses on leveraging multiple scales of virtual reality hardware and software to allow homebuyers and homeowners to truly experience a residential property prior to construction or renovation. By using Augment technology, RDL offers home buyers and renovators the opportunity to create a 3D model of their two-dimensional floor plan by using any smart device to scan the floor plan. Ward, Baughman, and Esposito used desktop Virtual Reality (VR), Google Cardboard 360 degree visualization, and HTC Vive fully immersed VR to offer users different VR scales and options.
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