Augmented Reality with Hololens: Experiential Architectures Embedded in the Real World

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of Microsoft Hololens for immersive 3D visualization, demonstrating its potential to enhance experiential understanding of architectural and data models in real-world contexts.

Contribution

It provides early insights into Hololens applications for 3D visualization, showcasing its capabilities in immersive architectural and data visualization in situ.

Findings

Hololens enables immersive 3D visualization in real environments

It improves understanding of complex 3D data and architecture

The device offers a new experiential approach to visualization

Abstract

Early hands-on experiences with the Microsoft Hololens augmented/mixed reality device are reported and discussed, with a general aim of exploring basic 3D visualization. A range of usage cases are tested, including data visualization and immersive data spaces, in-situ visualization of 3D models and full scale architectural form visualization. Ultimately, the Hololens is found to provide a remarkable tool for moving from traditional visualization of 3D objects on a 2D screen, to fully experiential 3D visualizations embedded in the real world.