Best AEC Solution
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Virtual site visits and monitoring
Reduce the need for expensive trips to far-off sites or stream feeds of remote sites to keep on top of any issues.
Collaborative design reviews
Use immersive and non-immersive tools to speed up decision making and avoid costly mistakes.
Asset and facilities management
Bring teams into asset and facilities briefings.
Immersive training
Conduct immersive training activities with those on site or virtually for those working remotely.
Stakeholder engagement
Showcase concepts, accelerate decisions, and bring key stakeholders on-side.
On-site briefings and walkthroughs
Support construction efficiency and health and safety compliance with on-site briefings and virtual walkthroughs.
Igloo immersive spaces come in many shapes, sizes and degrees of sophistication – from control rooms and presentation suites to powerful CAVE-type solutions, they can be stand-alone structures or custom-built configurations, or retrofitted into existing meeting rooms.
We support whatever solution required – from ICE software, to an IMP media player, to a standalone structure, to a full design and installation service.
Our user-friendly interfaces and comprehensive training ensures a smooth onboarding process, making it easy for AEC professionals to adopt and use an Igloo space from day one.
And it doesn't just stop there, If you buy an Igloo solution, or have one on long-term hire, we provide full support contracts, with both remote and onsite servicing and an ongoing consultancy service.
One of the great things about an Igloo space is its flexibility.
ICE works with all the industry-standard digital tools making it easy for your teams to embed an Igloo immersive space into their daily routines - and get value from it right away.
For example, you can explore Matterport projects in full 360° or step into your Unity projects with your whole team at the same time. You can also work with everyday office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, you name it...).
And with our with our layer-based system, you can easily work with many different types of content, from many sources, all at the same time - making it easy to create control-room style dashboards and interact with data from across your project and wider organisation.
If you already work with immersive spaces, you’ll know there can often be a problem with getting the perspective right – so content can look distorted, and sightlines can get interrupted.
Some providers don’t even bother (they just take a flat image and wrap it around the 360° space). Others give you the option to correct the perspective yourself (but that entails a lot of fiddling around in a complex back-end system).
With a unique-to-Igloo feature called True Perspective, ICE does it all automatically.
With specific hardware and content, it can also allow you to change the sense of perspective as you walk around the space – just like in real life.
The whole point of an Igloo space is to immerse teams in an alternative reality, - by accurately visualising an unbuilt space, for example, or authentically simulating a hazardous scenario, or successfully transporting an audience to a different time or place.
So True Perspective is a game-changer for anyone wanting to make their content look totally realistic. And we’d say its invaluable to AEC organisations, allowing you to perfect the quality of equirectangular or 3D content (such as BIM content, game engine-based content, Matterport models, and 360° YouTube videos).
See how clients in the AEC sector have benefitted from Igloo immersive technology over the years
“Previously we took a number of weeks working with the planners to help them understand how the buildings related to each other and related to the context, and it took about 6-8 weeks to agree the height of those buildings. Using this kind of technology we can agree that in five minutes.”
“Viewing 3D objects in a VR headset is good, but there's nothing like a bit of collaboration. Working collaboratively is fantastic. And this is the first time we've been able to view 3D models collaboratively.”
“Hosting meetings in this space 100% makes the meeting a better, more productive, collaborative meeting. Rather than people being huddled around a laptop or projector, you can view the whole project around you. So we’re seeing massive boosts in efficiency in those kinds of meetings. We've had design reviews booked in for eight hours and seen hours cut off that.”
Get in touch
In our 15+ year track record, Igloos have been used by clients all over the world to deliver training in a shared immersive environment.
So, please, get in touch to tell us about your ideas and see how Igloo can bring them to life.
