

With the help of our partners, especially the City of Gothenburg, and with great use for research, city planning and industry, we believe that “true” virtual cities can be built. There are some building elements found in the Build-a-Lot games, but Virtual City focuses a bit more on the maintenance of that city, which includes deliveries. Description Establish and develop a city in the vein of SimCity games.

After the successful implementation of the two campus sites, the project will be scaled to the city level, starting with Virtual Gothenburg. We envision a bustling city filled with buildings, street vendors, taxis on the roads, and inhabitants going about their business.
BUILDING A VIRTUAL CITY FULL
The long-term goal is to extend the project to a larger scale. Building A Virtual City Vision The goal of this project is build a virtual city full of scripted objects and activities. The process will be accompanied by Chalmers Division of Interaction Design to ensure usability and accessibility. In addition, Mixed Reality (MR) and Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities will enhance the user experience. The 3D-platform will serve as a multipurpose arena for researchers featuring First Person and Real Time Strategy user perspectives as well as real-time coupling of simulations and data. In the first project phase (2018), virtual twins of the two Chalmers campus sites (Lindholmen and Johanneberg) will be modeled directly as an immersive 3D world (open-ended city). This makes it possible to create LoD2 buildings with any common roof shape. BuildingReconstruction generates 3D building models in LoD1 and LoD2. Central to the project is the development of a 3D-platform that allows the integration of different models and data into a single platform. Automated reconstruction of 3D building modelsin just minutes. The project Virtual aims to compile expertise in modelling, simulation, urban planning, computer science and other research fields to build a dynamic and interactive virtual city platform. Together with the City of Gothenburg and Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics, the Chalmers Area of Advance Building Futures has decided to take on the challenge of building a virtual city platform.
