Breaking VR, Brilliant City Joins Intel to Push "Double Seven" VR Des

The long-standing pain points of architectural designers are hard-to-make designs, but they face endless changes when the program is reported. Because designers and customers are likely to lack adequate and effective communication before, it is difficult to achieve a complete and consistent understanding of the specific design; and on the premise of serving customers, modify the design is the inevitable result.

As a professional designer, if you show flat plans, perspectives, models, and even renderings to customers who don't have much expertise, how can you ensure that they can fully understand the designer's details and well-intentioned efforts?

However, just like the evolution from graphic design to rendering to video virtual roaming, tools for improving communication efficiency and demonstrating results are constantly improving in the architectural design industry. After entering the virtual era of VR, we finally can use an immersive approach to show the charm of architectural design.

The effect of VR virtual reality, I believe many people have experienced in various popular VR games. The game scene can provide such a strong sense of space immersion. Then it is also an architectural design space based on computer graphics rendering technology. Why can't we do this?

In fact, there are already such tools. We recently experienced a tool that specializes in the transformation of architectural design models and VR virtual scenes. This tool is called Guanghui City Smart+ and it comes from a new company that has been established for less than three years. Although the visibility of this product is not yet as good as 3D visualization software such as Lumion, the brilliant city Smart+ based on the Unreal Engine 4 still has many advantages in terms of difficulty and effect.

Brilliant City Smart+ is a cloud conversion engine platform that transforms Sketchup models into VR virtual reality scenarios. The following figure shows the workflow of Glorious City Smart+: The architectural designer loads the Sketchup model through the Smart+ client, converts it into a VR virtual reality scene through the VR conversion program and the centralized rendering system in the cloud, and after further effect adjustment and detail optimization Output multimedia content suitable for VR experiences such as split-screen panoramic video viewed by VR glasses.

In fact, the glorious city Smart+ design platform Bate 1.0 was launched in March last year, but the initial rendering and virtual reality experience is not yet perfect, so many people think that its use is not as good as Lumion, but with the March of this year The Smart+ design platform version 2.0 is on the line, and the smart city Smart+, which clearly takes VR virtual reality as its development direction, has finally entered a mature stage. Can we connect to real-life material scenes, allow the scene to adjust the virtual reality roaming scene, and connect Brilliant City Smart+ with BIM building information model?

Although the Brilliant City Smart+ design platform moved most of the rendering work to the cloud, the basic design model loading and effect adjustments still need to be done locally, and the efficiency of this stage is directly related to the performance of the PC. It is estimated that it is precisely because of the consideration of making up the last piece of the puzzle. Glorious City has also jointly created two VR Designer PCs jointly with Intel and Asustek, and released it in Shanghai on August 13. Here is the secret, these two VR Designer PC's special place.

According to the official announcement, the VR Designer mainframe based on Intel's "Double Seven" is equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor up to 4GHz, an ultra high-speed Intel 750 series solid state drive with 400GB, and the latest ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card. 32GB memory and 8GB large capacity video memory. At the same time, the host is also bundled with "Smart City"'s ultimate VR conversion tool - Smart + Ultimate, designers can use VR Designer PC directly into SketchUp sketch master model, within 3 minutes to 3D design sketch Convert the generated VR scene. The new customized Smart+ Ultimate provides the most complete design library and virtual scene application resource library in China, with 40000+3Dmax models, 30000+SU models, 13000+ renderings, and nearly 2,000 virtual scene resources, covering public facilities and vehicles. Indoor furnishings, outdoor landscapes, plants and figures, characters movements, figures and clothing, etc. form a perfect resource application environment!

Two VR Designer PC Hardware Configurations

VR Designer PC clearly considers the needs of the architects in terms of configuration, and ensures the calculation by adopting the latest Intel “seven” configuration: Intel’s sixth-generation Core i7 processor, Intel’s 750 Series SSD, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics. Performance and graphics rendering performance are at the top level, avoiding invalid waits at work due to lack of performance. At the same time, VR Designer PC also focuses on optimizing storage performance for loading and storing large amounts of design materials and models. 32GB DDR4 2400 memory and high-performance Intel 750 Series SSDs work together to provide a smooth working experience at any time.

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VR virtual reality technology is changing the tradition. In the field of architectural design, designers can experience the effect of design works in real environments through VR technology, experience real space, observe design details, try different space transformations or material selections, and In the virtual three-dimensional world, the design is freely edited, the design scheme is further optimized, the design efficiency is improved, and the design expression is improved. In the era of VR's revolutionary visual experience, the designer's gladiatorial arena is also extending to the VR world, and new value spaces and incremental markets are opening up. In this process, hardware and software play an equally important role and require multiple collaborations to rapidly improve the VR experience. Just as this brilliant city and Intel jointly announced VR Designer PC, Intel played an important role in it. This is not just to provide the Dual Core 7 with the Intel Core i7 processor and the 750 SSD Designer PC, but also with ecosystem cooperation and software and system integration and optimization.