Mobile app: SmartRealityDeveloper: JBKnowledge, Inc.Cost: Pay per projectAvailable on: Apple and Android devices
SmartReality is an augmented reality mobile app that uses the mobile device's camera to overlay an interactive BIM model on a printed construction plan to transform the plans from 2D to 3D visualizations. The app helps bring projects to life in an interactive three-dimensional platform that allows users to see a finished project or components of a project at various stages in the building process.
While viewing the projects, users can zoom, expose structural layers with a touch, move through the stages of a project over time and record images and video of their experience.
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According to the app developer, one general contractor was able to use SmartReality to present and eventually win a multi-million dollar project to a school board. The contractor handed everyone in the room a tablet and placed a 2D floor plan of the project in front of them. Using the app, the school board members were able to visualize the finished building and interact with the project. School board members said it was the first time they had actually understood a projected floor plan bid.
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Contractors can create a free account and upload 2D and matching 3D plans and models for a quote. SmartReality developers then match the plans and models for viewing in the app and will notify the user once it is done. The next time approved users open up the mobile app and load the project they can point the device's camera at the 2D plan to see the 3D model overlaid.
The SmartReality app is also available in a virtual reality version, developed by the JBKnowledge Labs R&D team that lets users virtually walk through the building models using virtual reality solutions like the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear and Google Project Tango.
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App features:Source: ForConstructionPros App of the Week: SmartReality
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