THE POSSIBILITY OF STREETSCAPE AND SPACE EVALUATION USING THE VR SYSTEM BY THE COMBINATION OF HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY AND GYRO SENSOR(Urban Planning)

Abstract

In this paper, Virtual Reality System for Streetscape and Street space evaluation using the Virtual Reality system is presented. Firstly, studies on VR System using scale models, CAD models, and VR system with both scale models and CAD models in literatures are investigated. Secondly, light and small VR system using the combination of HMD and 3 axes gyro sensor, which provides view stereoscopic environments and enable us to view all direction of Streetscape, is presented. Thirdly the adaptability of this system for the Streetscape and space evaluation is investigated through two experiments. The sense of Height, Volume, Amenity, Depth, and Activeness of different stand points and those by different streets which have different width are investigated and several features of sense of Street space are clarified by the VR system.