Bio
Simon has a Master degree in Computer Science and is the CTO & cofounder of HoloBuilder Inc. located in Silicon Valley. HoloBuilder.com provides a web based 3D editor for VR & AR where users can easily create 360° AR&VR tours by uploading 360° images, animated 3D models, text and other virtual content and connecting them to one interactive experience. Simon specialized in the areas of software engineering, computer vision and machine learning. He is a passionate developer, he started the Google Developer Group in his university city and in 2011 open-sourced his Android based AR SDK with now over 25k unique developers visiting. 2009 he met is now cofounder Mostafa Akbari with whom he founded his first company in 2012 to create industrial Computer Vision & Augmented Reality software which later evolved to become the foundation for HoloBuilder.com
Sessions
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Digital Job Walks: How to Create & Use 360 VR Tours02:00 PM - 02:30 PM Oct 19Virtual Reality is changing the way people interact with the world in their personal and work life. Especially for old industries as fundamental construction, there are many interesting ways to use VR to create more effective workflows. One huge improvement of the workflow on construction sites will be something HoloBuilder calls "Digital Job Walks". On HoloBuilder.com, people can easily upload and link sphere images (that now can be taken easily with 360° cameras like the Theta S) to Virtual Tours. Construction Professionals, they can add Text as well as 2D & 3D objects to the sphere images to visualize ideas and make annotations. The online service allows to created Digital Job Walks quick and easy which save time and money for builders throughout the entire construction process. Advantages can be found at all stages of a construction project. During the bidding process, subcontractors can make more realistic and accurate bids because they can visit the planned construction site virtually before making a bid. During the construction project, professionals don’t have to travel back and forth between construction site but can visit all sites remotely instead. The virtual visits do not only save travel costs, more frequent updates over the cloud will also make the identification and reaction time to mistakes much faster, which notably reduces rework costs. While these are just the main advantages, there are many more which will lead to the use of VR and AR in construction. While the idea has been around for a while, HoloBuilder's easy and simple creation process of Digital Job Walks is transforming the industry.