Immersive environment helping the engineering sector
 
Geopositioning, geospatial technologies and 3D models are in full motion right now in an ever growing number of activities, and the engineering world is no exception.
 
These technologies greatly help to achieve the engineer's objectives, especially in the building engineering field, where more and more practical applications are used as they become available.
 
In 2009, Urbanimmersive made a remarkable entry in the engineering.
 
Inside a project, Urbanimmersive's 3D immersion creates a scaled immersive environment from geocoded pictures.   Pictures used to create such an environment either come from digital photographs, computer generated imagery ( 3D models ) or a combination of both.
 
Immersive environment runs on a computer and on a mobile application.   The engineer now has the feeling of moving around at the location as if he were there, owing to the fact that he can control his visit in a multidirectional way, On the web or on an Intranet, the customer can also benefit from a remotely guided tour conducted by the project manager or the designer.
 
A saving of time and money - green technology
Use of an immersive environment allows a saving of time by eliminating the need for repeated visits to a site, required to prepare a work order, by supplying all the visual information of the site without having to go there physically.
 
An evolutive environment
What's more, the immersive environment is evolutive, which means we can easily add visual content or information ( plans, technical data, etc.- by use of hyperlinks ) and adapt it through time. As an example, once the planing of the project is finished, it can be used to follow up on the work, documenting, TQC plans production, for exploitation or even servicing of the project.
 
Useful from the pre-planning of the project to the follow-up, the advantages of the Urbanimmersive immersive environment are as equal at the qualitative level as well as at the quantitative level: analyzing variables, easing the collaboration between different agents, having a priceless decision making tool on hand, minimizing trips, etc.
 
Our immersive environment technology, through its design, allows high added value applications for the 21st century engineer.