REVIZ - Virtual Reality in architectural design

2016 is clearly the year of Virtual Reality. It’s one of the hottest topics on technology blogs and news. Generally, there’s a strong focus on entertainment apps, but beyond that this technology has enormous potential for business purposes - particularly in the construction and architecture industries where Virtual Reality (VR) offers a wide range of possible applications.

One of the biggest challenges in the development of construction projects is the deployment and discussion of the design progress. Usually construction project teams are quite large, where team members do have different competencies and not everyone involved is able to picture a whole building or even just a room based on floorplans. The use of virtual 3D environments enables every team member to experience the project’s progress and creates a basis for a profound and constructive discussion.

Mikavaa is a digital agency based in Germany specialized in the development of applications for the visualisation and presentation of building projects - and quite a few of their solutions have incorporated VR technology. They developed a web-based revision tool called REVIZ to help them to optimize their work process - both internally and together with the client.

“At any given time, we can export 3D models from a CAD-software and upload it to REVIZ. On the server side, the model will be rendered to different visualisation types, including stereoscopic 360° visualisations.” explains Kay Siegert, leader of the project. “Using the REVIZ mobile app and a VR headset, each team member can view the model in a virtual environment to get a near realistic impression of how the project will look in real life. Everyone can comment on the design and mark the corresponding areas directly within the 3D environment. All comments are organized in a chronological discussion and can be checked off just like on a to-do-list. The different visualisations of a project can be linked with hot spots, allow us to easily add virtual tours through complex projects. Additionally, visualisations are organized in revisions, providing a seamless documentation of the whole design process.”

“We currently use REVIZ internally in projects for different architecture offices, engineering companies and project developers, but we are planning to open up the service to other companies, as well.” says Johan Wagner, Co-Founder of Mikavaa.

The company welcomes anyone who is interested to check out their demo projects.
Get further details about the service and contact information at www.revizapp.com.

Mikavaa is an owner-managed digital agency based in Germany, founded by Johan Wagner and Kay Siegert. We develop concepts and solutions for process optimization and innovative marketing for architecture and the construction industry.

Kay Siegert
Mikavaa GmbH
Brandvorwerkstr. 52-54
04275 Leipzig
Germany

hello@mikavaa.com

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