CITC 12 – In Person Conferences are Back!  

After a two-year hiatus, the twelfth Construction in the Twenty First Century conference returned, this year, in Amman, Jordan. We at MAVRiC are very pleased to have attended this year and it goes without saying that we had an amazing time, as always. Not only did we attend, but we also presented not one, butContinue reading “CITC 12 – In Person Conferences are Back!  “

User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…

We’ve heard tons of bad stuff in the news recently to the extent that we are now on the verge of questioning the existential need for, and/or losing our faith in, the demonising nature of media; we really long to hear some good stuff, we want to believe news doesn’t need to be bad toContinue reading “User involvement, participatory design and other good stuff through VR, AR and I don’t know… some other good stuff…”

A look inside industry perceptions of augmented reality

New technologies will always be fascinating; they challenge the way we do things and how we experience them. This fascination is usually, in my case anyway, accompanied by grandeur visions of a technological experience so intensely fun and productive; of a marketing device that sells your business for you; of tech that could achieve ‘fullContinue reading “A look inside industry perceptions of augmented reality”

Utilities aren’t ready for augmented reality, and here’s why…

The world beneath our feet is a complex one (or a messy one depending on your opinion of it). Either way, it seems like with the technology we have at our hands, it’d be easier to make sense of it all? Wouldn’t it be great if we could hold up our phones and see allContinue reading “Utilities aren’t ready for augmented reality, and here’s why…”