PORTFOLIO / INTERACTIVE
Center of Experiences
Forum City
Touch Table Software and Panoramic Virtual Tour
PORTFOLIO / INTERACTIVE
Center of Experiences
Forum City
Forum City
Client
Forum Group
Task
Create interactive 3D Content for Forum City's Center of Experiences Showroom, dedicated to a new residential area.
Solution
Integrated interactive 3D Presentation for Touch Table and 3D Panorama Window
RESULT
Our visitors don't really want to leave the showroom, - say managers in the Center of Experiences. It's easy to see why! The future residential area comes 'alive' thanks to high-quality visualization and authenticity. Move the sun across the sky with one touch to see the amount of sunlight in the area throughout the day. Have a fascinating tour around the future residential area in the surroundings of the genuine, lifelike city center. Go up the highest building and admire the breathtaking view of Yekaterinburg, Russia. More importantly, pick any apartment and check out the view from all its windows. Don't forget to study different layout alternatives designed to fit any lifestyle, or create a layout of your own. Then save it to your personal account, send by e-mail, or print it right away. And much, much more!
How we did it?
Not only did we have to create high-quality 3D visualization of the residential area, but also show it in the realistic surroundings of the city center. After we estimated the required volume of 3D modeling for the urban area as seen from all various angles, it turned out to be truly enormous. As a result, we decided to employ aerial photogrammetry. Our camera drone was flying over the site of the future residential area at different heights and distances for several days. Thus, we've taken an immense number of shots and generated a 3D textured mesh of practically the entire Yekaterinburg city center. We manually made a model of the buildings nearby. The distant view is a 360° panorama photo. The final software comprises two parts. The first is an interactive 3D presentation, started from a touch table with 4K resolution. It operates together with the other part, installed on the high performance server, which is connected to the panoramic screen with a more than 10K resolution. To render real-time graphics with the same resolution and frame rate of at least 30 frames per second, we had to unleash the power of two Nvidia GTX1080ti video cards in SLI mode. Virtual Tour is controlled by a gamepad. All actions with the database and customers' personal accounts are synchronized with the sales management system, used in the company's Sales Department.
