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Arrowstreet’s VR/AR Team at SXSW
SXSW, Austin’s annual festival has transformed into an innovation hub for tech drawing crowds of designers, planners, visionaries, and game changers. Arrowstreet’s VR/AR Design + Development team spent five days in the Capital City, seeking insight and answers to complex questions centered around how the rapidly evolving innovations in tech will drastically inform the future of place-making, visualization, and the…
AR / VR in Action Roundup
Augmented reality is often associated with Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” where Alice crosses through the mirror into a bazaar imaginary world. At the Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality in Action Conference it was easy to believe far more than “six impossible things before breakfast”. The number of applications and demonstrations was impressive and inspiring. The roles for AR…
Why Arrowstreet is Implementing VR into their Projects
Over the past several years, our team at Arrowstreet has experimented with the implementation of Virtual Reality in our practice. VR has well documented architectural applications. The ability to actually experience space early in the design process helps us as designers as well as our clients make more informed decisions during the early phases of a project. The implementation of…
ULI: Developing for a Driverless World
Join us on June 7th as we sponsor ULI’s “Developing for a Driverless World” panel, which will explore how autonomous vehicles are impacting the built environment, and how developers can anticipate these changes. The esteemed panel includes Don Briggs of Federal Realty and Kris Carter of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. To read more about the topic, check out Amy Korte’s interview with…
MIT CoLab: We Need Your Vote!
Arrowstreet is one of three finalists in the MIT CoLab competition attempting to harness the power of MIT alumni to address climate change. Voting is open for your favorite idea, and we would appreciate your help! Winners will be chosen by both the judging panel and people’s choice, so every vote counts. Both winners will then be invited to present their ideas…