Epic Games, the company best known for Gears of War, has a very different plan for this generation of video games — one that expands far beyond what games are typically assumed to be. [...]
In this future, or present if you ask Sweeney, lessons learned from one field, say an architect designing a virtual building, can be applied to games or film, and likewise. Sweeney believes the potential application of the engine across all fields increases exponentially as information is shared.
— theverge.com
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"As for the architects and designers, the way game environments have been designed in the past may bleed into the real world through augmented reality. "Maybe you live in a modest apartment but you can put Renaissance masterpieces on the wall [through augmented reality]. The game engine has a great role to play in all of that."
Yep real useful stuff... No doubt there is some utility of game design and simulation to an architect, but virtually projecting a Renoir on the wall isn't what these folks should be hanging out as an example. It's the simulation, AI, and information visualization capabilities that these game engines are capable of that I see as the major contribution to architecture and planning.
That's a matter of opinion. I think people in architecture fundamentally want to utilize new tools in old ways. However, something like augmented reality has the potential to significantly shift the field. Will it? Who knows, but the idea should not be dismissed.
Unreal. Is free now by the way.
Artists are much faster than architects at adopting and exploiting new technologies and they do so without the crushing baggage that architects deal with. Architecture has only now started to deal with the realities of internet culture, social media and placelessness. As augmented reality becomes more commonplace artists are going to run with it while timid architects will pretend to be above it all.
I agree with davvid. Architects dismiss things as fads and kitsch, then start from behind when they realize they are here to stay. I'm not suggesting that Architects need to be Squirrels, but too often we are more akin to Ostriches.
What's so great about augmented reality?
miles, it's like reality, but augmented.
It's funny though, most futuristic representations of augmented reality in any form of media paint it as a hellscape of advertising. It's one of those things that we are going to seriously overshoot and then pull back on realizing it has applicability but also requires restraint.
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