Major Infrastructure

Virtual reality, augmented reality, or CGI? Which is best to visualise a major development in Australia? Or anywhere in the world.

While it may seem fresh to some, immersive technology has been supporting the dance between architects, engineers, and construction teams for over 30 years. It has become industry standard and is integral to the success of major infrastructure projects.

The stages from design to real world development are inherently three dimensional. They should be visualised – and planned that way.

That’s where virtual reality and augmented reality come in. Streamlining communication in a visual and interactive way – bringing a project from concept to reality has never been easier.

When implementing major infrastructure projects such as railways, underground transport, and airways – there is no room for error. Everything has to be exactly to code.

Virtual reality and augmented reality amplify the ability to identify problems throughout the design process and solve them easily. Conduct safety inspections and identify hazards virtually on construction sites, improving the standards, and crunching the timelines.

Impress clients with top line presentations using computer generated imagery (CGI) and animations that bring your idea to life, in distinct and intuitive ways.

The free-flowing and informed dialogue these technologies facilitate with corporate stakeholders allows for relevant voices to be heard, expectations managed and then exceeded.

AR and VR are the future of construction, they play a pivotal role
Worker’s safety training, defects management, quality management, projects scheduling, data collection, logistics management, project progress evaluation, and more are conducted by AR and VR tech in the modern construction process.

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Meaningful Benefits of Immersive Tech in Major Infrastructure

Encourage stakeholder engagement & aligning expectations with tangible final designs
Identify the consequences of design decisions, increase understanding of the entire development design process
Efficient design reviews with stakeholders and partners, great visuals make for speedy signoffs
Provide construction team support, ensuring quality planning and progress monitoring throughout development

Construction Safety is one of immersive tech’s major benefits, provide safer working environments with hazard identification, safety inspection, and education
Operations Support using augmented reality will ensure that workers are safe, informed, and productive
Train employees on any equipment or process imaginable, in the safety of a controlled environment
Collect individual data on training progress.

Augmented Reality for Major Infrastructure

Augmented reality is one of our premiere services we provide for the construction and engineering industries, it consolidates a mix of real world and virtual reality components. Aiding in time management, scheduling, quality assurance, and data acquisition. With a diverse range of capabilities, augmented reality has you covered.

Creating an augmented reality where you can see the before, and potential after, of a project is helps all parties contextualise the plans. Overlaying what can be, on what is, has a powerful effect on stakeholders.

Viewport designs custom animations, visualisations, applications to suit your business, slipping right into your timelines with ease.

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Augmented reality can generate concrete information about design, component parts, and machinery for significant time and expense savings. Also, AR can be applied to 3D designs showing various configurations to view the product as one would in real life.

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Virtual Reality for Major Infrastructure

Virtual Reality allows construction teams to immerse into a new dimension (a potential project) with a real world feeling. During construction projects, problems often arise directly related with employee or business capabilities, capacities and knowledge levels. VR technologies can put everyone on the same page, to truly experience a project before production is commenced.

Virtual reality (VR) technologies are used as an essential tool for worker training, safety management system, progress tracking, labour management, defects management and so on. Solving the problems before they arise, in real time.

“Many benefits are drawn from VR in [major infrastructure developments], like saving time and money at different stages of product development. But the gains are not just quantitative, but also qualitative like improving process and product quality, fostering innovation mindset and refining the worker’s skills.”

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Success with Immersive Tech in Major Infrastructure

METRONET

Since 2019, Viewport has worked on over $1M of 3D Visualisation Services directly related to rail for the Western Australian METRONET project. We have completed works on 16 large scale separate construction, redevelopment or expansion projects for rail, working closely with Coniglio Ainsworth, McConnell Dowell, Georgiou Group, Arcadis, BG&E, CPB Contractors, Downer and CIMIC, among many others.

For these rail related projects we have delivered over 100 high-resolution images, over 20 high definition animation projects totalling over 60 minutes worth of content, including a range of high quality completed construction fly-throughs for public consumption, and a massive selection of complex 4D animated staging sequences for stakeholder and community engagement. On top of this our team has also created a range of disruptive technology solutions for community engagement, such as AR and VR.

Our highly experienced team is well versed in communication and terminologies with all client side disciplines involved, our well documented systems and processes for importing and optimising complex design files from a range of sources is extremely advanced, and we thoroughly understand the importance of the narrative in these forms of media when used for public or stakeholder consumption.

To this date we continue to work on and win additional tenders related to rail projects, expanding our client base and continuing to deliver content that is far above the standard being delivered around Australia for these forms of work.

Conclusion:

We have covered a lot of ground here. However, there is no “one size fits all.” The best solutions are tailored and unique to your specific needs.
This is what sets your brand experience apart, and holds customers’ attention. High quality, distinctive, and relevant experiences for your customers. This is the essence of creating loyalty.
Say hi, if you want to discover how to engage buyers with extended reality and interactive product visualisation touch screens. As an Australian owned and operated company we have the expertise, experience and industry insight to help your business grow with immersive technology.

Testimonials

Dedication, Flexibility and Partnership

Partnering with Viewport to develop the immersive virtual and augmented reality Mini Mine game for the Resource Technology Showcase (RTS) was a fantastic experience from start to finish.

We set out to create something that would engage and inspire the next generation-and the result exceeded all expectations.The Viewport team brought creativity, technical expertise and a genuine passion for making mining accessible and fun. The Mini Mine game was a huge hit at RTS, drawing in students, teachers, and even industry leaders. The interactive mini-games and clever design transformed the complexity and scale of our operations into something accessible, compelling, and truly inspiring for kids to engage with, while also showcasing the excitement of digital innovation in our industry.

We’ve had incredible feedback from everyone involved and the game has become a valuable tool for our ongoing outreach and education efforts.Thank you to the Viewport team for your dedication, flexibility and partnership. We’re proud of what we achieved together and look forward to building on this success in the future.

Kate Flanagan

Executive GM IM & Technology

Epic work, team!

This animation has helped to illustrate what we're working towards at BHP's South Flank - it's successfully supported our narrative and built excitement.

We've used it as a valuable tool in recruitment, global conferences, social media, & internally to tell our story. It's a quality product - thank you. 🏆

P. Wyatt

Principal Communications

Reliable and great to work with

We are stoked with the product visualiser content Viewport created. The VR and Hololens is a huge hit at expos, and the AR app on phones is brilliant.

It lets us send our gigantic engineering right into the palms of anyone’s hands around the world. The software they built is easy to use, the attention to detail is terrific, and the team is reliable and great to work with.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking for AR or VR tech.

Brad Higgins

Head of Business Development & Strategy

It is exactly what we wanted.

It was amazing to see the nursing homes come to life in this immersive virtual reality environment. We were so pleased with what we ended up with.

Dr Andrew Stafford

Dementia Training Australia

Incredible experience

It has been an incredible experience working with the team at Viewport XR!. The skill, passion, care, expertise and dedication that Viewport brought to this project were world-class.

Poppy Van Oorde-Grainger

Director

Just amazing to work with

Julius & the Viewport team were fantastic at understanding our priorities and were just amazing to work with. Flexible, accommodating & always offering full support/confidence to make our AR app come to life.

Software integration to our existing systems was also key to success and their understanding and problem solving around this was impressive. Our app My Pool Design is something we are very proud and we are getting great feedback from the users.

Great job team. We are now working together on the next project.

Lynley Papineau

General Manager

Highly collaborative

Viewport XR work in a highly collaborative manner and constantly strive to do better on each subsequent project. Their enthusiasm, rigour and ability to work proactively as part of a larger team is exemplary.

In CAAs experience, Viewport XR are also constantly trying to innovate and lift the bar. We are confident that our business partners and clients who have worked on these projects and have experienced Viewport XR’s services would also attest to their abilities.

Andrew Ainsworth

Director

Build Without Boundaries: Where Vision Meets Reality on Australia’s Largest Infrastructure Projects