Low-cost virtual reality environment for engineering and construction

Visualization in Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hilfert, Thomas ^a   König, Markus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Building Information Modeling; Construction; Engineering; Head mounted devices; Virtual Reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994299770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22137459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40327-015-0031-5     Document Type: Article

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