Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality
CAMH Design Review
Center for Addiction and Mental health
Solution
LOCATION
Toronto, Canada
TYPE
Design Review
Team
Stantec
Produced by Designstor
Development by Franco Capella, Creative Direction
Produced by Designstor
Development by Franco Capella, Creative Direction
The CAMH Queen West campus utilized a VR experience to inform the design approval process of a new facility. A series of key spaces were created and viewed with an HTC Vive headset to allow project stakeholders to observe the spaces for flow, sightlines, and patient safety. This provided the designers with feedback from the stakeholders' experiences to make changes as needed.
The VR experience included weekly rounds of revisions, and groups were brought in for hour-long sessions to review and make comments on the design of the space.
The VR experience included weekly rounds of revisions, and groups were brought in for hour-long sessions to review and make comments on the design of the space.
Virtual reality
Experience
To streamline the design review sessions, an iPad controller was added to the VR experience as the initial controller training for using the controllers was consuming large portions of the sessions. With the iPad controller, architects could follow along with the VR users in a top-down view and seamlessly move between each of the topic areas.
Virtual reality
Tracked Objects
To enhance the user experience, we observed that some users would sit in a physical chair to gain a sense of their perspective behind a care station in VR. To address this, we added a tracker to the physical chair, allowing it to align with a digital one. This enabled users to reach for and sit on a virtual chair. Additionally, we also provided an iPad controller as an alternative to using the VR controllers, which was found to be more intuitive and saved time during design review sessions.
Virtual & Augmented reality
Reviewing CHanges
The VR experience was improved by adding a HoloLens companion application. This allowed project managers and modellers to review design change requests before applying the model updates to the scene for the next session. By combining the HoloLens with a Vive headset, both wearers could review the same space with collaboration tools to mark areas of interest.
