Applying Mixed Reality to Construction Industry:the Issues in Technology and in Human-Machine Interfaces

Autor: Wei-Che Hsu, 徐瑋澤
Rok vydání: 2018
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 106
With the software support multifunction and hardware can run faster and faster, Virtual Reality (VR), this technology has been developed for more than two decades can be implemented today. More and more industries hope to use virtual reality’s immersive display to improve the efficiency of implementation and solve the problems that they encountered in current projects. Based on the technology development of virtual reality, there are two more visualization technologies: Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR). This research expects to use the new visualization technique “Mixed Reality” to develop some function and explore its application direction in the construction industry. And the construction industry can refer to what we provide in the future. Construction industries usually use 2D CAD for drawings. In recent year, Building Information Modeling develops and prepare to improve 2D CAD’s problem. At now, we can effectively convert 2D CAD to 3D model and store the numerical data in building objects. And then the user can inquire the information more easily. But only large-scale consulting and construction companies have sufficient resources for R&D. It’s difficult for small and medium-scale manufacturers to develop BIM technique. This research implements Mixed Reality technique and proposed the development process. It’s based on Revit’s model and loads the building model to Unity, one kind of game engine. We expect to use easier development mode to reduce the development cost of visualization and provide the different way to develop this new technique. Construction Life Cycle is divided into six phases. In this research, we focus on the phase of planning and design. We focus the interactive function that MR support and provide the function for the user to operate in the model intuitively, including the display of information on each object, designing their own layout. With this Mixed Reality system structure, the user can clearly cognize the place where they will use in the future. In addition, this research explores the opportunities of Mixed Reality for the construction industry. We will conduct interviews with a different kind of construction company and let them understand what we do by using video and operation of software and hardware. After we get the feedback from the expert, we will suggest the research direction in the follow-up research to improve this Mixed Reality system.
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