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Digital twin: what you gain by seeing a machine before you build it
A model that behaves like the real object lets you test, show and correct before a single part exists. What a digital twin is, how it…
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Selling off-plan: how to show a home that doesn’t exist yet
Drawings don’t sell, because almost nobody can read them. What the options are for making a buyer understand a development before it is built, and which…
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Virtual reality in therapy and rehabilitation: what a controlled environment adds
Being able to grade a situation, repeat it and measure what happens. What virtual reality actually does in a clinical or intervention setting, and which decisions…
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Virtual heritage reconstruction: rebuilding a monument that is no longer there
Photogrammetry, archaeological record and judgement. The real process of rebuilding in 3D what time took away, told through the Temple of Diana and the Alcántara Bridge.
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VR training simulators: when they pay for themselves and when they don’t
Virtual reality does not improve every kind of training. Here are the four cases where a simulator pays for itself, and the three where you are…
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Virtual or augmented reality? How to choose based on what you are showing
One replaces the place you are standing in; the other adds information to what you already see. The choice is not technical: it depends on whether…
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What’s the difference between virtual reality and 360° video?
Similar technologies with a lot of daylight between them. Here is what separates them, and when each one is the right call.