Then you are ready to walk around your ARCHICAD Model in VR. Once loaded you click on Drop Avatar > Then place the Avatar on your site > Then Click on Virtual Reality Navigation Mode. In your ARCHICAD Project: Click on the Fuzor Menu > Scroll to Fuzor Main > Click on Launch Fuzorįuzor then launches and begins to load. I invited Joe to my office to show me how it worked and how it linked from ARCHICAD. There is a solution out there that enables VR in the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive direct from ARCHICAD in only a few clicks! Fuzorĭeveloped by KallocTech appeared to be an impressive piece of software and I had to test it.

A fortnight ago I got to see his presentation at BrisBIMx of VR solutions and got excited. This guy knows everything VR and has undertaken significant testing regarding software, hardware and even video cards. Now skipping forward a few months and I had a discussion with Joe Banks about VR software. But for me the quality of the VR experience is best in a purpose made VR headset. This is a budget option for VR experience and one that is more portable. It is a software tool that I have used as part of my communication processes for many years, and will continue to do so.Īs a side note BIMx now has VR capability through Google Cardboard. Now before someone comments, wait there is BIMx! Don’t worry there is a place for BIMx. Yes, gaming engines can accept a variety of file exports from ARCHICAD including SKP and 3DS, but the time to save the file, export into the gaming engine, learn the steps to make the file suitable for first person VR with collisions etc.

The one thing I struggled with is the number of steps that were required and the lack of quick workflows for ARCHICAD users and the file types that it exports that are accepted by Gaming Engines. When I received it, I went about the various detailed workflows to take a model from ARCHICAD into a suitable format to view using the Oculus Rift.

Like all technology fanatics out there I pre-ordered the Oculus Rift and took delivery in July this year.

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