An Immersive Virtual Reality Mock-Up for Design Review of Hospital Patient Rooms

摘要: Full scale physical mock-ups of specific hospital units such as patient rooms are routinely utilized to serve the multiple purposes constructors, designers, and owner stakeholders for healthcare facility projects. The shortcoming with this practice is that mock-up constructed during construction phase limited use making extensive decisions regarding functionality room design. Three-dimensional visualisation tools offer opportunity comprehend proposed designs more clearly planning design phases, thus enabling greatest influence on decision making. While several options exist, based their experience a bariatric model, authors promote utilization Virtual Reality review because enhanced capacity an immersive, interactive long-term utility models balance project life cycle.