150 years old company uses Virtual Reality

McCarthy Building Companies employs virtual reality to construct hospitals.

Virtual reality lets McCarthy Building Companies show clients a finished building before a single brick is laid.
As one of America’s largest builders, McCarthy Building Companies has been designing and constructing hospitals, laboratories, and education facilities for over 150 years.
And now the company is looking to the future by using virtual reality to improve its design and building process.
At its office in Roseville, Calif., McCarthy has been using VR technology for several years. In 2012, McCarthy built its own Building Information Modeling (BIM) Cave, which uses projection technology and 3D glasses to allow multiple users to see what a hospital room or office space will look like.
Making any type of changes once a building is under construction is extremely expensive and time-consuming. By using VR, McCarthy offers clients the ability to make changes virtually for free well before actual construction has begun.
McCarthy keeps upgrading its VR technology. The company currently uses a very powerful gaming computer with an Oculus VR headset and an Xbox remote control to show clients what a 2D blueprint looks like in real life. Even the age-old use of constructing scaled mock-up models of buildings is being replaced by VR.

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