ARCHITECTS may one day walk onto a greenfield site and conjure up the edifice
they want to build with a click of their fingers. A wall here, an atrium
there—all the legwork will be done by a wearable virtual reality
system.
Wayne Peikarski and Bruce Thomas of the University of South Australia in
Mawson Lakes, Adelaide, last week showed a conference on wearable computers in
Zurich how their system would work. A GPS satellite-navigation receiver will
track the wearer as they move around the site, while a headset-mounted sensor
detects subtle movements to pin down their precise position. Using…
