With more and more available and affordable VR applications on the market, most architectural professionals are willing to try 3D immersive walk-throughs of their architectural project. According to the architectural visualization technology report by Chaos Group, over two-thirds of architecture and architectural visualization professionals plan to use VR in 2018. VR technology gives clients the possibility to “physically” be inside the project and explore the area in their own way and at their own speed. It fills in the limitation of a preset animation and static renderings.

Twinmotion introduces an extremely easy workflow to bring BIM to VR in barely 2 steps. It can be your best solution for VR exploration and 3D immersion. In this post, we will present the interactive VR menu, the ease of navigation and the “must-know” about VR with Twinmotion 2019.

From BIM to VR in 2 steps – import a model & activate VR mode

In addition to the direct synchronization with ARCHICAD and Revit, Twinmotion supports 3D designs of almost every modeler on the market imported in .FBX, .SKP, .C4D and .OBJ formats. Once your model is imported into Twinmotion and a VR device (HTC VIVE or Oculus Rift) is setup and connected, you simply need to click on the Eye icon in the Twinmotion viewport to immediately immerse yourself in your project.

Interactive VR menu

Once in VR, you’ll see the interactive VR menu controlled by the two virtual hands right in front of you. The left hand holds the menu, which includes weather and time slider, material and media list, as well as various settings such as languages, viewport quality, etc. The right hand controls the sliders, selection and navigation.

VR in Twinmotion 2019 empowers clients to test 634 Twinmotion PBR materials in an immersive VR environment, change the time of the day or enjoy the beauty of their architectural project in a sunny, rainy or even snowy day.

Teleport in VR

Twinmotion provides an ease of navigation by doing teleporting. This gives a more comfortable experience to your client and avoids nausea, which is often caused by continuous movement in VR.

Use the right hand controller to guide the navigation. Put the flash to where you’d like to go and push the trigger — you’ll immediately be teleported to the selected position.

The VR ready standalone .EXE file BIMmotion

BIMmotion is a standalone .EXE file exported directly from Twinmotion, among other media: image, standard / 360° video and 360° panorama. It allows your clients, collaborators and stakeholders to explore a design in an innovative and immersive way. Clients can navigate in the entire project in BIMmotion without having Twinmotion installed on their workstation.

Launch the BIMmotion file by simply double clicking on it, after which you can activate the VR mode with one click and start VR exploration.

Twinmotion is Apple’s choice for VR

VR is not only for Windows users.

Chosen by Apple to join the launch of its new iMac Pro, Twinmotion demonstrated the new computer power thanks to unrivaled performances of real-time visualization, 3D immersion and immediate VR exploration. Unparalleled in its singular reinvention of the tools controlling space and time, Twinmotion, appearing now on 169 official Apple websites as a reference solution, sets virtual reality as a production reality in particular in the fields of Design and Architecture.

Summary

Two steps and 3 clicks are all you need to start prototyping in VR with your clients, to review and enjoy a project with your collaborators and to providing an immersive experience to close the deal.

Twinmotion makes it possible for all architecture and architectural visualization professionals to bring BIM to VR in the easiest way, regardless of the size and complexity of their project, their workstation, their IT skills or their modeler.

Try it yourself – Download Twinmotion 2019 20-day free trial now.

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