Towards a Collaborative Urban Planning Environment

Can virtual workspaces enhance team communication and collaboration in design review meetings?

“…In contrast, digitally enabled virtual workspaces have demonstrated great potential for multi-user interaction for purposes such as product design (Shyamsundar, N. and Gadh, R. 2002), decision-making (Yao, J. 2010) and scientific exploration and analysis (Heer, J. and Agrawala, M. 2009).…”

The Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality on Visualisation for a Design Review in Construction

“…The fact that the Immersive VR can simulate the experience of moving through and interacting with the virtual world as if it was real [15] enables the stakeholders to use the digital mock-up to perform any tests required during the meeting in order to validate any highlighted issues. Thus, VR produces a [18] , it provided the users with a sense of being there in the user"s mind.…”