Williams, J. E., & Orooji, F., & Aly, S. J. (2019, June), Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Exploring Student Experience   Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32999

\bibitem{asee_peer_32999}
  Williams, J. E., \& Orooji, F., \& Aly, S. J. (2019, June), \emph{Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Exploring Student Experience }
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32999

Joseph Edward Williams III, Fatemeh Orooji, and Shahnaz J. Aly.  "Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Exploring Student Experience ".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32999 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32999}
  Joseph Edward Williams III, Fatemeh Orooji, and Shahnaz J. Aly.
  "Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Exploring Student Experience ".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32999 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

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AB  - The architecture industry significantly relies on visual communication. Virtual reality helps designers create a greater sense of realism and a better understanding of a project by designing while immersed in them. Virtual Reality (VR), is a digital space where the user’s movements are tracked to convey interactions in the surrounding digital world. High resolution, high refresh rates, precision tracking, and positional audio combine in a headset to create a life-like environment that “tricks” the user’s senses to create a convincing and immersive experience. That technological advancement has a potential to improve the design process. Therefore, the demand for adapting the use of virtual reality environments in the Architecture industry has been increased over the past two decades. If the academia is aligned with industry, students will be better prepared for integration into the workplace. As a result, the integration of virtual reality into architecture school is an educational imperative. 
This study describes the overview of the ongoing integration of virtual reality (VR) environments within the Architectural Science program. A pilot study was conducted on a group of students before incorporating VR into the classroom to investigate the value and the challenges of integration of virtual reality system in design education. This research details and analyzes the experience of a senior student by applying VR to facilitate learning in the context of architectural design. The student applied Virtual Reality to become immersed in the designed building through the use of a headset and hand controllers. Based on the collected experimental data, the authors investigate the practical application of VR in the learning environment and demonstrate the effectiveness of this advanced technology in pedagogical practice.

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