Technology
AR in Action NYC
Arrowstreet’s Virtual/Augmented Reality Team is speaking at the AR in Action Leadership Summit in NYC on June 6-7. Principal, Amy Korte AIA, along with Kachina Studer and Kat Schneider are presenting a panel on AR in Architecture on June 7. Convening the top minds of the augmented reality ecosystem, this twice annual event explores the challenges and opportunities that face…
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…
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…
MIT Media Lab: Reality, Virtually, Hackathon!
Arrowstreet’s Kachina Studer participated in, and won the Reality, Virtually Hackathon at the MiT Media Lab on October 7-10th. The event sought to explore the application of virtual and augmented reality technologies for building new experiences and consisted of workshops led by industry experts, followed by two days of hacking to “transform the future of immersive technologies.” Participants from 9…
Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Important
With the federal government finally proposing regulations, self-driving Uber’s in Pittsburg, and autonomous taxi’s in Singapore, there has been a lot of media about autonomous vehicles recently. And like so many other disruptive technologies, the news is both exciting and compelling. But why is this important? As much as cars take up a significant amount of space, time, and money…
Demonstrating Virtual Reality for Architecture at HUBweek
As a part of the HUBweek festival, Arrowstreet participated in Harvard Innovation Lab’s “Explore the Emerging Worlds of Augmented and Virtual Reality” event. Our team presented work using the GearVR and the HTC Vive to immerse visitors in how we are using Virtual Reality as part of our design process. We showed interior and exterior 360-degree views of a boutique…
Arrowstreet at HUB Week
Explore the emerging worlds of augmented and virtual reality at HUB Week. Arrowstreet will be presenting our work on September 28th from 1-5 pm at the Harvard Innovation Lab as part of a demo showcase featuring AR/VR startups and industry leaders.
IBPSA Workshop
Arrowstreet participated in a workshop last week hosted by the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Boston chapter, which focused on early energy modeling. The workshop brought together architects and engineers to talk about ways that we can improve upon our processes to facilitate better design integration of energy modeling. We also discussed ways that we can use modeling to demonstrate…