The use of Immersive creation and design brings significant advantages to companies. This breakout session will focus on best practices and methodologies of how and why you would want to bring an immersive environment into your workflow. How an immersive workflow can easily scale and transcend across many different industries, as well as different departments and business units within your organization. This session will also focus on tools and resources, how to lower your design and architecture costs, lessons learned, as well as successful implementations.

User-centered interface design increasingly gains importance in modern mobility design to provide sophisticated experiences for the customer. Looking at advanced display technologies and the growing possibilities for human-machine interaction, Porsche wants to ensure a driver-centered and fully interactive product experience. Therefore, it is more important than ever to enable both designers and board members as well to get a highly realistic and fully immersive experience of their products in the early stages of the design process. Not only to integrate advanced technologies like augmented reality (AR) seamlessly into the design concept, but also to be able to explore which technologies can enhance the driver experience in which way. This class will give you an inside view into how Porsche is using VRED software to collaborate with other departments and provide new possibilities for UX/user-interface experiences in the early design process.

This presentation will explore how immersive technologies (XR) can help designers in different phases of the design process and enhance workflows. The XR revolution is happening in the design industry, but many design firms and individual designers may have not thought about how they can do conceptual design and present design ideas differently. The concept of immersive technology implies a great paradigm shift from a 2D design space to a 3D world where designers can empower their creativity. With an innovative and open-minded work culture, HOK embraces new design technology and aims to create a more effective workflow and powerful design solutions. The class will focus on how XR can help create a more powerful work environment and push the limit of design communication, and discuss the impact of XR on designers, clients, and users.

This session will provide a series of examples showcasing the variety of immersive technology that SmithGroup uses throughout the design and construction process. In early design phases, virtual reality is a powerful tool for understanding spatial dynamics and gaining client sign off. As projects move into construction, the ability to digitally overlay data on a construction site becomes invaluable—the use of augmented reality and the Microsoft HoloLens enables for vital Revit model data to be transferred to site for field verification during construction administration. We’ll review the wide range of hardware and software available for use, as well as how to best use BIM (Building Information Modeling) to make immersive technologies a practical and integral part to your workflow.

After the initial excitement of seeing the great potential of immersive technology (XR), we are faced with the challenge of implementing XR across our global design practice. Learn how Perkins+Will has successfully implemented the full spectrum of XR technology in its organization. Whether you would like to start with simple panoramas or go full immersion, you will learn about all levels of XR, and incorporate these XR tools into your daily workflow. Learn about 360 virtual reality (VR), 6-Dof VR, augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and social VR. See how you can quickly experience your design in an immersive environment using Autodesk software, enhance stakeholder engagement, and reduce unnecessary hours spent creating drawings to explain your design intent. This class will help you understand a new workflow for implementing immersive technology across your organization.

Autodesk Labs: Project Boulder for InfraWorks 360 software brings together the immersive 3D design environment that is perfectly suited for immersive design and analysis. Project Boulder is a collaboration with Hydronia RiverFlow2D that provides the ability to simulate, visualize, and animate 2D flood events directly in the InfraWorks 360 software model environment while using the Hydronia RiverFlow2D computation model.

In this class, we’ll use Unity to develop an immersive walk-through of a finalized InfraWorks model. In InfraWorks, we’ll learn methods to optimize our complex tree geometry and export the final product meshes. In Unity, we’ll import our data, apply collision and physic variables, formulate a first-person camera asset, and export a final build of the walk-through. The final build can be demonstrated and shared with stakeholders, encouraging them to explore the project on their own terms.

In the past, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry relied heavily on in-person interaction, physical models, and 2D visuals. Communicating design intent in this way —especially with COVID-19 impacting the future of work—has posed challenges for design reviews and coordination meetings to provide the right context for all stakeholders. Using real-time BIM enables companies to create immersive, interactive experiences for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Companies can conduct design reviews between designers, owners, and construction trades irrespective of geographic location and iterate across teams before the concrete is poured. This session will explain how Unity Reflect enables immersive design review and coordination to empower better collaboration and faster decision making, bridging the gap between designers and decision makers.

Discover the partnership between Microdesk and Black Artists + Designers Guild (BADG) with the Autodesk Foundation. We’ll look at processes that went into creating a virtual reality (VR) conceptual house that would engage with a large audience, encouraging users to interact with the spaces and explore the artwork. We’ll showcase a workflow that enables flexibility during unpredictable design changes when a strict deadline’s involved. We’ll further explain the pressures and successes of the project, plus the lessons we’ve learned. Through digitalization, we implemented technologies to enable an immersive experience. We’ll showcase how we used Revit software as a foundation that let us capitalize on 3ds Max software’s flexibility during unexpected schedule changes. Finally, we’ll discuss the Unity workflow we’ve created for future projects. This will highlight innovative practices, new interactive technologies, and immersive simulations, and will give audiences a richer experience, while still focusing on the arts and culture.

Following the very successful class of Autodesk University 2018, this year we bring you more economics, more lessons, and a very practical guide of how to save millions with immersive design with not one but two case studies. IM Designs, MRV, and BASF Suvinil will tell you two stories about how they saved millions and revolutionized their customer presence and customization with immersive visualization. MRV is the largest construction company of Latin America, and BASF is the world’s largest chemical company. These two giants relied on virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) to boost sales and add value to their businesses, while saving budget. Igor Macedo, CTO of IM Designs, is here to tell you how we help them achieve those objectives. You’ll learn about real-time rendering and optimization, how to deal with large data sets, and the necessary user experience that you must provide in order to take your extended reality (XR) idea and your business to the next level. Autodesk University 2019 is going to be legendary! We hope you love this class and get really motivated!

Real-time, immersive experiences in VR, AR, mobile, and more are becoming standard in the AEC industry. But as many AEC firms have experienced, creating interactive and immersive 3D content from BIM data can be a barrier to meeting aggressive client timelines.Join Unity Solutions Engineer and Unity Certified Instructor Fred Moreau to explore how to streamline the process of building immersive, interactive experiences from multiple BIM/CAD models. Attendees will learn how Unity Reflect, Unity’s new AEC product that integrates with Revit, can enhance their ability to quickly iterate on projects, drive better design decisions and reach consensus more rapidly.

We will cover the various techniques used in the film and television industry when dealing with sensitive sites or locations. This class will also address the use of ReCap Pro software for reality capture using point clouds with photogeometry and exporting the appropriate file format when importing into Revit software to assist in the manipulation of the site design (set design). We’ll examine use of storyboard techniques translated by production designers to create construction documents and renderings for both site location and set designs (exterior and interior) with Revit and 3ds Max software. We’ll also learn how cloud collaboration improves the workflow between various disciplines within the art department and production show runners for faster turnaround using virtual reality walk-throughs. We’ll also examine immersive design with the use of augmented reality and mixed reality to determine what is actually constructed, what is virtually constructed, and what is sent out for fabrication when constructing film sets.