Yes. For it to be useful, you need a detailed, accurate model of the thing you're working on. They exist for aircraft because they're needed to build the thing. Before 3D CAD, full-scale mock-ups were built to figure out how everything fit, and 3D CAD is cheaper than building a full-scale wooden mock-up.
Few other objects are that big, that complex, and have a sufficiently detailed model available. For a building, updating the model is a lot of work and requires discipline to keep the model in sync. Nuclear plants, spacecraft, and unusually complex chemical plants might have a model at that level of detail.
Interesting. Would love to chat more and see what you've built and show you what we've built - shoot me an email if you get some time - sean@aircada.com
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Summary: they surveyed 40 people and 1 was using it
Yes. For it to be useful, you need a detailed, accurate model of the thing you're working on. They exist for aircraft because they're needed to build the thing. Before 3D CAD, full-scale mock-ups were built to figure out how everything fit, and 3D CAD is cheaper than building a full-scale wooden mock-up.
Few other objects are that big, that complex, and have a sufficiently detailed model available. For a building, updating the model is a lot of work and requires discipline to keep the model in sync. Nuclear plants, spacecraft, and unusually complex chemical plants might have a model at that level of detail.
Worse than that: they made a request on Reddit and a few other places, 40 people responded, and 1 was using it.
Didn't even touch the industry I make an AR app for. Although it's more for capturing data than showing it
Interesting. Would love to chat more and see what you've built and show you what we've built - shoot me an email if you get some time - sean@aircada.com