Mortenson Creates First-of-Its-Kind Augmented Reality App for Construction Visualization
After pioneering the use of virtual design in construction, Mortenson Construction has developed a first-of-its-kind augmented reality (AR) mobile app to help the University of Washington community see its future CSE2 computer science building well before its doors open to students in January 2019. Users can experience the buildings exterior in AR, and can then teleport inside for an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience. (PRNewsfoto/Mortenson)
In addition to serving as an immersive public engagement tool, AR carries the promise of reimagining the construction site. In this spirit, Mortenson was also among the first companies of any kind to partner with AR smart-helmet maker DAQRI to test AR construction applications last year. AR headsets and goggles have the future potential to provide crews with just-in-time instruction, projections of an installation layout on a concrete slab, or a data overlay that shows how each building system has been performing over time.
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