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DLD panel on Future City (Part 1)

The number of interesting applications for the near future is great. A truly functional virtual reality platform has to cope with a number of different use cases from city planning to elderly care or teleconferencing software. Virtual reality’s strongest points are interpersonal communications applications and human-technology interfaces; the true value of the extended web is in connecting the real world with the new user interface. Top 5 applications for realXtend (in our own opinion): Virtual meeting tools Reduce travel costs and enhance quality over traditional telephone and video conferences Collaboration and social interaction Imagine your team members sharing applications and thoughts while they are geographically distributed, but virtually co-located. Advanced user interface Complex applications, such as home automation control, are easier to understand and use when they are presented in 3D applications. Collaborative Games realXtend is an ideal platform to make novel multiplayer game titles. It features many aspects that do not exist anywhere else. Collaboration, co-building and dynamic worlds offer rich possibilities for entirely new kinds of games. Visualisation technologies Visualize enormous amounts of data and make it comprehensible for the end user. For example, building information models and architect's drawings can be presented as a 3D world, where users can walk around and visualize how things are going to look.

L'urbanisme face à une nouvelle révolution urbaine