Their project, "Collaborative Exploration of Urban Data in VR and AR," enables multiple users in VR and AR to collaboratively explore live urban data in the context of an immersive scale model of New York City.
The urbanization of many sub-Saharan African countries make this urban data interesting nonetheless.
Another constraint was the lack of available urban data.
For many parts of the world, urban data is scarce.
In this paper, an Urban Data Integration (UDI) framework is introduced that is capable of integrating heterogeneous urban data.
For West, this first meant trying to gather as much urban data as possible.
We present extensive experimental results, using two large urban data sets collected by our research platform.
While computers in her time could not handle complex volumes of urban data, contemporary technology can.
However, such work will need useful urban data to make progress.
In the future, she hopes to work with urban data to explore how we interact with and shape our surroundings.
How can historic preservation, in a new era of urban data, address the challenges of 21st century cities?
