Metaverse-CAD+and+BIM+design

Descriptive paragraph
 In the photo it is possible to see a piece of a city by night. One avenue linearly across this part of the city, and many tall buildings are so close to each other. There are many modern buildings, probably for residence or maybe for commerce. The avenue is so filled by cars in one direction, but in the other, the traffic can move on. There are too many people walking on the sidewalk, no matter if is night in the city.

 This photo can evidence the uses of the virtual reality technology, creating a metaverse of a city. This virtual city is exactly like a real city, with some little details. This image seems like a game screenshot, but also seems like one high-populated city. media type="file" key="Cesar's Descriptive paragraph podcast.wav" width="300" height="50"

Virtual reality and digital modeling go on trial for a federal courtroom design

//By Alan Joch//

 Architecture, design and technology are near be mixing. Lately, technology is being developed for help in the design field, where the structure design process is being developing by computer in real time by different architects. In Mississippi, the GSA (General Services Administration) has been part of a pilot project for the design of a Federal courtroom using the 3D computer technology. The judges wait for the project and also they are part of it. The new 3D technologies allow the visualization of every step in the design and construction process; the judges and architects may see that by 3D glasses, similar to the 1950s.

 The judges met the team at Disney Imagineering Studios in California, where they got access to a special room called CAVE (Computer Automatic Virtual Environment) and they saw a virtual model of the courtroom in real time and real size. During the model walkthrough, courtroom elements could be rearranged based on the feedback of judges and others.

 Other features of the courtroom were tested, like the sounds. The GSA made a virtual sound test for checking the acoustic characteristics. The illumination and lightning were also tested. Through the virtual reality, it was possible to realize that test. But Paul Marantz, the project’s lightning designer, said that virtual reality presents some limitations for the analysis lightning process. Nevertheless, the problems detected in the tests can be helpful to improve the design.  Renée Tietjen, a senior architect in the office of applied science of the GSA, says: ¨the technology proved itself as a design tool¨. But for Judge William Barbour, U.S. District Court judge for the southern district of Mississippi, the jury is still out. “We won’t know if virtual reality accurately simulated the courtroom until we get through with the building,” he says. “But my initial impression is yes, it definitely did.”

 In my opinion, one of the best tools for the architecture and design is the virtual reality. Somebody else can see the project and perfectly understand it, and architects also can leave away the plans by paper, saving time, money and making everything more easily. Technology and virtual reality have been combined with architecture to design a Federal courtroom, but later it will be something common in the design and the construction. Maybe in the future, the architects won’t make plans or design by paper, but by computer using virtual reality.

Metaverse: -A metaverse is a virtual world designed and created by computer using new technologies. Is like another universe inside this universe. It used for many applications, but the most use is the design of projects. Many architects use it to simulate a building or another project designed in a virtual environment. When one project is designed using any program by computer, this project can be simulated in a virtual environment where’s can appears with other projects and also with virtual people. This may offer many advantages, like a quick look of the project before being constructed; this may also reduce some cost, verifying any mistake in the virtual project to make it perfect in the real project.

-One of the better advantages is the possibility of interacting with other architects and designer in the metaverse. The designers can create their own avatar for the metaverse, and make conferences, reunions and collaborative work between them. Also, they can design the project from the beginning in the metaverse, and make it any modification.

-Other uses of the metaverse are the games, specifically the massive-multiplayer-online games, where each of the users has an avatar and play with it in an environment designed for that purpose.

Comparison and contrast paragraph -The first point is the definition of CAD or CADD and BIM. The CAD (Computer-Aided Design) programs are used by the professional design of any structure, it is commonly used for architects where they use some vectors and coordinate for drawing their projects. With CAD programs, it is possible to see the final structure with all the specifications and it’s possible to take a quick and short view of the entire project done. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a new technology developed, very similar to CAD programs but with a lot of updates and new applications. BIM programs are used in the areas of architecture and civil engineering to create a virtual model of the project developed and allows making the project step by step by computer; the process seems like the project construction process, but reducing time and cost. The CADD programs and BIM programs and technologies are similar, but lately the BIM technologies are more developed and may offer many applications better than CAD. Some says that CAD programs are dead because the BIM technologies come. Other features of BIM are the possibility to give specifications to any part of the structure, from the structural elements to any component or element that complement the project; also the possibility of creating and design any furniture and modify it. It could possible that BIM defeat CAD programs, but until BIM programs are developed completely, the CAD programs will be the best for design. media type="file" key="Cesar's comparison and contrast paragraph pc.wav"