VR Live in Architecture: Broadcasting Realtime Virtual Reality

Desktop broadcasting and Virtual Reality is an emerging medium which provides many opportunities in architecture, planning and design practices, including assessment for new architecture and interventions to existing buildings, heritage sites and, urban design. With the advent of real-time rendering and live streaming of Virtual Reality environments it is possible to interactively evaluate project vision by non VR experts. This paper discusses innovative developments on VR, and in particular applications from video-gaming technologies VR online publishing and live VR broadcasting. The paper reviews medium and evaluates software tools. The paper discuses on potential frameworks for further empirical research within the domain of environmental psychology. Five design projects are described, software attribute tables prepared and qualitative feedback presented. Although the paper mainly focuses on technology it concludes with evaluating empirical studies on people-environment and design utilising emerging VR authoring and broadcasting tools.