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Follow on Google News | Daden releases white paper on Virtual Worlds and the Built EnvironmentPlanners, developers, builders and architects should be looking to virtual worlds to provide a whole-life model of their project according to a white paper released by virtual worlds solutions provider Daden Limited.
By: Daden Limited The white paper explores the current use and future opportunity of virtual worlds to help model the physical world and looks at why virtual world technology offers a complementary approach to existing tools, and possibly the best long-term solution to the challenges of built environment visualisations. Whilst conventional fly-throughs and 3D CAD drawing provide point solutions to specific needs, a virtual world model can support the entire building process, and on into operations, maintenance and live use. Uniquely the virtual world model lets users explore the social dimension of a building project, with users exploring the model in groups, and making changes to layout from in-world. The virtual world provides a “living” model that can be used by the client well after the build project itself. Daden Client Director Soulla Stylianou says, “From our work with a number of clients in the Architecture- “Most existing visualisation tools do not represent the user as an avatar so there is no sense of scale. One of the advantages of the virtual world is that we can build at different scales relative to the avatar based on the type of use, and experience of the interaction, that we want the user to have – from 1:1 models to table top models, and even to the equivalent of a Planning-for- The paper, which is available for download from Daden's website (http://www.daden.co.uk/ # # # DADENLIMITED is a virtual worlds agency based in Birmingham, UK. We offer consulting advice, design and build services, and have special expertise in immersive learning & training systems, built environment visualisations, and creating interactive virtual personalities (chatbots). Our virtual world and chatbot based solutions help organisations enhance and improve their business. Our clients range from the private sector to central and local government, education, public safety, health and care within the UK and abroad. End
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