VR or PR: Virtual or Physical Reality?

Virtual Futures for Design, Construction & Procurement

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-46

  Thorpe, Anthony ^a   Buswell, Richard A ^a   Soar, Rupert C ^a   Gibb, Alistair G F ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Changes in design thinking; Physical reality printing buildings; Rapid prototyping; Uses of RP and VR in construction design; Virtual reality; Visualization important part of design communication; Visualization of ideas critical to design process; VR and RP technologies tools for construction design, manufacturing and supply teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857369457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302349.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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