BS-VE - 3D Visualization of Building Services in Virtual Environment 

Type of the project: Research
Status 10/2002: Ongoing  

Organization:

HUT, Telecommunications Software and multimedia laboratory:    http://www.tml.hut.fi/

Other participating organizations:

Oy Halton Group Ltd:   http://www.halton.fi/
Olof Granlund Oy:   http://www.granlund.fi/ 
YIT Oyj:   http://www.yit.fi/
Senate Properties:   http://www.senaatti.com/
Fagerhult Oy:   http://www.fagerhult.fi/
Luxo Finland Oy:   http://www.luxo.fi/

Contact person:

Markku Mantere:   Markku.Mantere@hut.fi 

Project summary:

3D Visualization of Building Services in Virtual Environment (BS-VE) is a research project that develops virtual reality techniques and applications for Finnish building industry. The project utilizes a virtual room, Experimental Virtual Environment (EVE), at Helsinki University of Technology. Earlier projects have produced techniques to present realistic 3D building models and air flow visualizations in EVE and methods to explore them.

This project aims to enhance the interaction possibilities in the virtual environment. Spatial audio together with virtual acoustics will be used to complete the realism. Also visualization of additional non-visual building services information will be researched and the transmission paths for different information types from their production environments to the visualization environment at EVE will be optimized. 

Papers:

• Gröhn, M., "Localization of a moving virtual sound source in a virtual room, the effect of a distracting auditory stimulus", Proc. of the 2002 Internation Conference on Auditory Display, Kyoto, Japan, July 2-5
• Gröhn, M., Lokki, T., Takala, T., "Static and dynamic sound source localization in a virtual room", AES 22nd International Conference on Virtual, Synthetic and Entertainment Audio, June 2002, Espoo
• Gröhn, M., Mantere, M., Savioja, L., Takala, T., "3D Visualization of Building Services in Virtual Environment", Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, 29.-31.8.2001, Espoo, Finland, pp. 523-528. (31.8.2001 Konferenssiesitelmä ECAADE 2001, Helsinki)
• Gröhn, M., "Is Audio Useful in Immersive Visualization?", Proc. SPIE Vol. 4660B, San Jose 2002.
• Gröhn, M., Lokki, T., Savioja, L., "Using binaural hearing for localization in multimodal virtual environments", 17th International Congress on Acoustics, September 2001, Rome
• Äyräväinen, S., "3D Magic Lenses, Magic Lights, and their applications for immersive building services information visualization", internal report, 2001-2002
• Savioja, L., Mantere, M., Olli, I., Äyräväinen, S., Gröhn, M., Iso-Aho, J., "Utilizing Virtual Environments in Construction Projects", in evaluation for ITCON