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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/r...ng-realty.html

How Virtual Reality is Augmenting Realty


By Stefanos Chen
Nov. 8, 2019

On a recent tour of 9 DeKalb Avenue, the future site of a 1,066-foot residential tower, soon to be the tallest in Brooklyn, construction workers were still laying the foundation.

Then an associate with SHoP, the architecture firm in charge of design, pointed an iPad toward the hole in the ground and dropped in a true-to-life rendering of the 74-story skyscraper.
Using the iPad like a viewfinder, he was able to track the tower from base to neck-craning spire, showing how the building will relate to its neighbors.

“We can visualize problems that would not be able to be seen from a computer screen,” said Adam Chernick, as he tapped on individual panels of another tower rendering to receive
live updates on the materials used, construction status and dimensions. Mr. Chernick, the research and development lead for A.R. and V.R. with SHoP, has been working closely
with the designers on the augmented reality app.

...“One of the challenges that we face industrywide is communication,” said Michael Jones, a project director with JDS Development Group, the developer. “Having that information get down
all the way to the guy with the tool in his hand in the snow — it’s a difficult game of telephone,” he added, noting that this app should prevent some on-site mistakes,
avoiding the need for expensive remedies.

The software will also make it possible to build more difficult designs, said Gregg Pasquarelli, a partner with SHoP, pointing to the complicated
hexagonal geometry of the tower.

So far, the real-world savings are hard to estimate. The on-site crew is not yet using the software, relying instead on about 1,200 pages of 3-by-4-foot paper schematics mandated
by the buildings department, said Foteinos Soulos, a senior associate with SHoP. But the construction workers will get their hands on the app soon and will build the tower
using the software, he said; construction is expected to be completed in late 2021.

“As the building goes up,” Mr. Soulos said, “the app is going to get better.”

Adam Chernick of SHoP Architects demonstrates new software that can render real-time 3D data about ongoing construction at 9 DeKalb Avenue,
soon to be the tallest tower in Brooklyn.