Forget booking a flight, packing suitcases and suffering jet lag to visit sites on the other side of the world. All you need to explore buildings is a phone, laptop or – if you’re feeling especially extravagant – a VR headset.
Backed by Pi Labs, startup Moonhub has raised $2.6m in seed funding for its VR training tools.
Launched at MIPIM this year, Geomap’s virtual reality product for facilities management aims to cut costs and streamline building operations through an immersive experience.
Exemplary sustainable projects will form the centrepiece of a built environment virtual reality exhibition at the United Nations climate conference next month.
The end-to-end digital leasing platform has raised €1.5m from lead investor Axeleo Capital together with Pi Labs, Sparking Capital, Growceanu and strategic angel investors.
The Pi Labs-graduate Romanian startup that takes office visualisation marketing tools to another level has secured its first UK project ahead of a major push outside its homeland in 2021.
The most advanced, fully interactive virtual reality digital twin of a major city area has been unveiled in a collaboration between the City of London Corporation, Innovate UK, New London Architecture and VU.CITY.
Tech investor Oded Eliashiv shares his picks from his stable of startups.
An urban village hall that adapts to local needs, a community art wall to enable public discourse, and a virtual reality game for development trade-offs are just three of 18 innovations profiled in a paper by the UK Green Building Council.
Adaptability and digital competence should positively influence job progression in the next decade, says planner Georgia Crowley.
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