Print Email Facebook Twitter VRbanism Title VRbanism: Assessing Virtual Reality as an Urban Design Tool Author Hanssen, Ruben (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism) Contributor van der Spek, S.C. (mentor) de Ruiter, P. (mentor) de Jong, P. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism Date 2017-07-06 Abstract During the last few years, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has evolved at an impressive pace. The newest VR systems offer a high level of visual realism and accurate interaction with the virtual environment through spatially tracked controllers. This technology is increasingly being applied in many professions, but in architecture and urbanism the use of VR was mostly restricted to visualization purposes. Meanwhile, an increasing amount of (3D) data becomes available which is now mostly visualised with 2D screens, while there exists a plenitude of complex urban problems that could potentially benefit from the use of this data. Also, our cities are still mainly designed with traditional design methods such as sketches on paper and unintuitive CAD software. These methods are viewed on 2D screens, often from bird’s eye view, while our cities are in 3D and experienced from eye level perspective. Designing in VR could potentially bring the designer on eye level and connect the design with the world of available 3D data, offering a new, intuitive design method: 3D hand movements.This project focuses on the application of VR in an urban design process with current state of the art VR hard- and software. A design area was converted into a 3D virtual environment, a VR design tool was created and then used to create multiple design variants in VR. The lessons that were learned during this research form a first step towards new design methods, making use of the possibilities of software and immersion offered by VR. Subject Virtual RealityDesignUrban FabricDesign method To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ce53d63b-8d79-4de9-a179-8f21f455639f Coordinates 52.390781,4.849250 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2017 Ruben Hanssen Files PDF Final_Report_Ruben_Hansse ... 253930.pdf 54.7 MB PDF P5_Presentation_version_3July.pdf 23.75 MB PDF P5_Set_of_drawings.pdf 35.76 MB PDF Reflection_Ruben_Hanssen_P5.pdf 120.65 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ce53d63b-8d79-4de9-a179-8f21f455639f/datastream/OBJ3/view