Construction Magazine November 2020 | Page 65

PLATFORM AS A VISION
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PLATFORM AS A VISION
Yet the greatest benefit of AR in construction is to integrate all of your BIM and GIS data into an open platform , available to anyone in a truly digital format . Engineers want to know what installations , for example , the electrician has made in a certain time frame . Workers need to receive the information they need for their installation task on site . In addition , users should be able to add feedback to their BIM models on the go , and such
AR applications enable this two-way information transfer in real-time .
If your company is late to AR , all is not lost , especially given the remote working shift and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic . Evan Gappelberg , Chief Executive Officer , NexTech AR , said : “ We are just at the beginning of what we believe to be a multi-year growth spurt in demand for AR , video conferencing and virtual events from businesses , governments and schools .”
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