🎓Try This At Home: Quick VR in Unreal Engine

Want to know how to ‘Matrix’ yourself into a project as quick as possible? Please read on… 💊 Following on from our previous post on Unreal’s Datasmith which looked at importing BIM and 3D information via typical AEC software at the click of a button, we’re now going to turn this 3D information into 3DContinue reading “🎓Try This At Home: Quick VR in Unreal Engine”

How to make beautiful looking SketchUp models, VR ready, for free

When it comes to Arch Viz, there’s a lot of ‘out of the box’ options out there, but if you’re anything like us at MAVRiC, you probably love using and abusing free software for all it’s got. In this blog post, I’m going to discuss things you need to consider when making your SketchUp modelsContinue reading “How to make beautiful looking SketchUp models, VR ready, for free”

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Design

We all remember HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey” (or at least I DO) and I, for one, am a fan of “Person of Interest”, but this is not science-fiction anymore, nor is it illusion or delusion… While Forbes indicated 27 examples of uses of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) in practice nearlyContinue reading “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Design”

🎓Try This At Home: Datasmith for Unreal

Intro Having been an avid gamer for many years, when I got my hands on a copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 sometime around 2005, my focus laid squarely on immersing myself in the videogame. However, like a trojan horse carrying whatever the opposite of malware is (benevolware?.. maybe not), little did I realise that theContinue reading “🎓Try This At Home: Datasmith for Unreal”