VR & AR en mass for the Construction Industry

from a safety perspective

Who am I • dr. ir. H.K.M. (Martinus) van de Ruitenbeek

• Specialist in ICT for Civil Engineering applications

• Work for Volker InfraDesign (mother company VolkerWessels)

Infrastructure & Geo Offshore & Wind Complex reinforcement

Typical BIM model

World BIM - MapXact

BIM models 3D Laserscans Soil radar scans Object recognition Tree models 3d Photos Etc Etc

What we do

Building Information Model (BIM) (3D + time + cost information)

Rendering + effects (clouds, cars, people et)

Our first game!

Simple VR on phone

Practical uses

Soil radar (machine’s eyes)

Machine AR

How to prevent excavation damage?

Visual human

check

pipeline

World BIM (machine’s AR) World

BIM

Serious Gaming • VR & AR changed our mindset into Serious Gaming!

• Serious Gaming gives you: • Competitive design

• Scores

• Alternative solutions

• Fun!

vs

Safety Game • Keep it simple

VR is Simple and Cheap!

2 Print

3 Use

1 Download

Or go ahead and buy something

Work instructions Game • Complex reinforcement game

Driving simulator

AR to design on your table top

What engineers need

Questions