Tech News: Improving urban planning with virtual reality

[bob_turner]

What should the city we live in look like? How do structural changes affect the people who move around it? Cartographers at Ruhr University Bochum use virtual reality tools to explore these questions before a great deal of money is spent on building measures. Using the Unity3 game engine, they recreate scenarios in 3D where people can experience potential changes through immersion, and they were able to prove that the physical reaction to this experience is measurable.

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