Preface

With the advancement of digital technologies, Architecture, Design, and Construction are constantly endeavouring to reach new horizons: Mixed Reality (MR) enriches their processes to these new destinies. This book introduces MR technologies, research and their applications in architecture, design and construction arenas. The chapters address MR's fundamental issues and present their impacts on these fields. As more researchers progressively employ MR as their base of enquiry, we see a need for a reference guide bringing the existing status of MR into awareness and expanding on recent research.
We include in this book a range of invited chapters from leading researchers in the field of Mixed Reality in architecture, design and construction. All authors are experts and/or top researchers in their respective areas, and each of the chapters has been rigorously reviewed for intellectual content by the editorial team to ensure a high quality. The chapters introduce the most recent research projects on theories, applications and solutions of environments that employ MR and its technologies. More specifically, the central focus of the volume is on how they can be applied to influence practices in architecture, design collaboration, construction and education.