Recent Advances in Augmented Reality for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Applications

In several science and engineering applications, visualization can enhance a user’s cognition or learning experience especially when the goal is to communicate information about a complex phenomenon or to demonstrate the applicability of an abstract concept to real-world circumstances. An important category of visualization is termed virtual reality (VR), which attempts to replace the user’s physical world with a completely synthetic environment. There are a wide array of applications now commonly associated with VR such as computer-aided design (CAD), scientic visualization, visual simulation, animation, computer games, and virtual training.