Presented by Pratt Institute

Organized by AIA Brooklyn and Pratt Institute School of Architecture, this lecture is led by Pratt SoA Professor Jeffrey Anderson and Rlab, the nation’s first city-funded center for research, entrepreneurship, and education in virtual and augmented reality and related technologies. This lecture introduces the current state of XR technologies and their application toward use in Architecture Offices. XR technologies categorizes both Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The lecture will speak to concepts of remote communication to clients, new modes of building virtual presentations and touch on the future of the industry. Lecture attendees are invited to also sign up for the XR workshop which will investigate the application of these concepts.

Course objectives:

  1. Participants will learn about and understand concepts of XR technologies and their use in the field of Architecture.
  2. Participants will learn introductory concepts of XR technologies and how they are implemented into Pre-Design project phases.
  3. Participants will gain project presentation knowledge on how XR can represent and communicate virtual presentations to Clients.
  4. Participants will learn about resources for further developing their understanding of XR Technologies.
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