I Want To Ride My Bicycle – I Want To Ride My Bike Using low cost interfaces for Virtual reality
Wolfgang Dokonal, Marina Lima Medeiros · 2019
The paper will give an overview of our experiments in the past years in developing different interfaces and workflows for the use of low cost Head Mounted Displays (HMD) for Virtual Reality solution.We are mainly interested in using VR tools for designers in the early phases of their design.In our opinion VR tools can help to bring back a better understanding of space and scale which have been lost a little bit in the last century with the change from analogue to digital tools.After teaching architectural and urban design for many years we can clearly say that this effect is still ongoing and it is time that we develop digital tools that try to reverses thi effect.We will then concentrate within this paper on discussing some aspects of data reduction that are important to be able to use these tools in the design process.We are also showing how we use our interfaces presenting some results of student projects for a design in Hong Kong and the strategies and methods for using VR for a ongoing work on a project about the establishment of a so called ``bicycle highway'' in the city of Graz in Austria.