Applying virtual reality in city planning

Abstract

The rapid growth of virtual reality in recent years has brought this technology to a wide variety of common users. Realizing the potential of this technology in building and planning cities; the authors introduce a system in which architectures are brought together into a 3-dimensional virtual environment in order to collaborate in building cities. This system uses the Oculus Rift as the VR device, combining with Leap Motion to detect user’s hand-gestures. The authors walkthrough all the details in building such systems including object modeling, communication protocols and gesture recognition technique.