Virtual-SAP: an immersive tool for visualizing the response of building structures to environmental conditions
Doug A. Bowman, Mehdi Setareh, Márcio Sarroglia Pinho, Numan Ali, Ananya Kalita, Y. Youngho Lee, Jason Lucas, Matthew Gracey, M. Kothapalli, Qinwei Zhu, A. Datey, P. Tumati · 2003
Immersive virtual environments (VEs) offer interactive, real-time visualization capabilities for engineers, architects, and scientists. This paper presents Virtual-SAP, an immersive VE application allowing users to assess building structures and their response to various environmental conditions through an interactive design-build-test-redesign cycle. Virtual-SAP has three distinct user interfaces that support its use with a high-end, multi-tracker VE system, with a low-cost portable VE system, or on the desktop. Two of these interfaces have been proven highly usable in user testing, and the third will be tested soon. Virtual-SAP is being used for both research and education.