VR Archives - Metropolis

5 Technologies Shaping the Future of Design

Metropolis Editors,

How will blockchain, cloud computing, machine learning, spatial computing, and AR/XR technologies transform architecture and design?

Using VR/AR/MR to Craft the Next Generation of Designed Environments

Kat Schneider,

For Kat Schneider, digital design application specialist at IA Interior Architects, VR and other immersive tech should be seen as more than just presentation tools.

Designers Are Exploring Ways to Introduce Users to a "Mixed" Reality

Mimi Zeiger,

A wave of artists, designers, and academics are blurring boundaries between virtual, augmented, and physical reality.

This Kaleidoscopic Exhibition Explores How Augmented Reality Will Alter Buildings, IRL and via URL

George Kafka,

Shown at Stockholm's ArkDes this fall and now available online, Value in the Virtual explores how our everyday experiences of the built environment will be changed through virtual and augmented reality.

Disrupting Reality: How VR Is Changing Architecture's Present and Future

Vanessa Quirk,

Within a couple of years, virtual reality and related technologies have gone from speculative to ubiquitous. Now, in the hands of a few architects and designers, it has the potential to revolutionize the design process.

New Retrospective Glimpses the Man Behind the Maison de Verre

Anthony Paletta,

With the help of VR and other technology, the Jewish Museum's ambitious exhibition on Pierre Chareau reveals a splendidly idiosyncratic life and work.

2016: The Year In Review

Metropolis contributors,

The world of architecture and design had its fair share of challenges and bright spots.

2016 Was A Watershed Year for VR in Architecture and Design

Vanessa Quirk,

With the democratization of virtual reality, architects and designers are discovering new potentials for the technology—and already looking to the next step.