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 Virtual Reality

› A believable, interactive 3D computer-created world that you can explore so

you feel you really are there, both mentally and physically.

› Putting it another way, virtual reality is essentially:

 Believable

 Interactive

 Computer generated

 Immersive
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› Types of virtual reality
 Fully immersive
 Non-immersive
 Collaborative
 Web based
› Virtual Reality is used in Education, Medicine, Scientific visualisation, Industrial
design and architecture, Games and Entertainment.
› Virtual reality creates a realistic world.
› Through Virtual reality user can experiment with an artificial environment.
› Virtual reality enables user to explore places.

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 Urban Planning

› Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development
and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water and
infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas

 Urban Infrastructure Planning

› Urban Infrastructure refers to the physical structure present in cities and towns.

› Infrastructure structure development has a key role to play in both economic

growth and poverty reduction

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 Journal Concept Summary
Title: The Use of Virtual The ability to visualize potential Urban planning in
Reality in Urban Design: modifications to the urban fabric Virtual Reality will helps
Enhancing the Image of Al- and experience these changes in to make and evaluate the
Ain City, UAE. their actual context allows alternative design easily.
Authors: Dr. Mostfa El planners and designers to evaluate It will lower cost than
ARABY & Dr. Ahmed Y. alternatives rapidly, in more detail the traditional analysis.
OKIEL and for lower cost than through
Published in the year:2013 more traditional analysis.

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3D model of Al-Ain City, UAE
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 Journal Concept Summary
Title: Virtual Reality As a New Tool in the In the future architects are Virtual reality act as a
City Planning Process like to produce a VR models communication tool in
Authors: Kaj Sunesson, Carl Martin for their proposals the urban planning
Allwood, Dan Paulin, Ilona Heldal, Mattias themselves. Virtual Reality process. We can
Roupe, Mikael Johansson, Borje
will be more accessible to a communicate the
Westerdahl
large group of stakeholders. infrastructure planning
Published in: Tsinghua Science And
process to the public by
Technology ISSN 1007-0214 41/67
the use of virtual
pp255-260 Volume 13, Number S1,
reality.
October 2008.
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 Journal Concept Summary
Title: 3-Dimensional virtual Virtual reality (VR) enables Virtual reality will helps
reality in urban management environments to be created that in urban planning to
Authors: S. T. Bhunua, H. can be interacted with directly, visualising and
Ruthera, J. Gainb greatly facilitating the process evaluating the new
Published in :The International of visualising, evaluating and
design ideas.
Archives of the Photogrammetry, communicating new design
Remote Sensing and Spatial ideas.
Information Sciences, Vol.
XXXIV, Part 6/W6

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 Journal Concept Summary
Title: Generating time series A series of 3-D city models By virtual reality we can
of virtual 3-D city models from the 1960s period up to analyse the changes in the
using a retrospective approach the most recent state and infrastructure for several years
Authors: Jan Kanuk, Michal analysed various aspects of the and implement a new ideas for
Gallay, Jaroslav Hofierka landscape changes in this part urban infrastructure planning.
Published in :Landscape and of the city.
Urban Planning 139 (2015)
40–53 24 February 2015

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Location of the Sekcov study area (red square) within the city of Presov, Slovakia
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Time series of virtual 2-D city models representing the Sekcov area in
(a) 1959, (b) 1969, (b) 1979, (d) 1989, (e) 1999, (f) 2010

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 Journal Concept Summary
Title: Comparing text-only and In this paper they test both text Virtual reality will help
virtual reality discrete choice only and the virtual reality to visualise and evaluate
experiments of neighbourhood choice experiments. Visual the options available in
Authors: Zachary Pattersona, Javad representations provide a urban infrastructure
Mostofi Darbania, Ali Rezaeia, John accurate descriptions of planning.
Zachariasb, Ali Yazdizadeha possible outcomes and it helps
Published in :Landscape and Urban to evaluate the increasing
Planning 157 (2017) 63–74 25 May number of options available in
2016 landscape planning.

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Summary of survey attributes
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Virtual reality task summary
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 Lack of communication between the designers and planners in
infrastructure planning.

 The time consumption for the planning is also to high.

 There are some difficulties in providing suitable infrastructure for the

public.

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 To increase the communication between designers and planners.

 To reduce the time for planning.

 To evaluate the suitable infrastructure planning for the public by

visualising the infrastructure planning.

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 Problem Definition

Objectives

Creating various Infrastructure

planning

Visualising the planning to the

public by VR

Selection of suitable
Infrastructure planning

Results

Conclusion

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 Auto CAD

 Unity3D

 Head Mounted Displays(HMD’s)-HTC Vive

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 Various infrastructure planning for urban development can be created
and visualised.

 Time consumption for planning can be reduced by virtual reality.

 By the public feedbacks suitable infrastructure planning can be

selected.

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• Virtual reality is very helpful in urban development.

• Virtual reality helps to visualise and interact with the Infrastructure

planning.

• Virtual reality act as a tool for urban infrastructure planning.

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