Implementation of Virtual Reality Technology in Architecture Field, and Education: A Review

Nowadays, the architectural design process became more complex, the exponential growth of the architectural field, Made the design more critical for the designers, and student to understand. While creating an outstanding building, it must be free of clashes and well-coordinated. The rapid development of computer technology has accelerated the progress of architectural technology, and the application of virtual reality technology has become more and more common. Virtual reality (VR) provides a completely digital world of interaction that enables the users to modify, edit, and transform digital elements responsively. It has strong integration and comprehensive characteristics and covers many technologies such as computer graphics, simulation, artificial intelligence, sensing, display, and network processing. This paper focuses on adapting the already-existing methods and tools in architecture to the VR environment under the sustainable and architectural design domain. For this purpose, this literature benefits from the semantically enriched data platforms of Scientific Articles on Virtual Reality, BIM, Architectural design, and green building, which in the end state the potentiality of Virtual Reality in the Architectural field through different aspects. It plays an important role in optimizing and simulating architectural buildings and improving them to an optimum design. It facilitates the design process to get the optimum design through different programs, which leads us to BIM and collaboration between team members in order to Imagine and coordinate between different trades. The VR illustrates the important role of Green Building, through simulation and tests of the building before initiating it. Not only the simulation but the life cycle. Whereas its importance in education for both Students and teachers.