Business View Oceania | August 2022

11 12 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 8 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 8 V2 I GROUP That’s what clued me on to the power of visual language. Nowadays, solving problems in an interactive digital twin world is so much cheaper and faster than solving them in the real world, or even worse, once construction starts. Just like it is easier to discuss a physical space with someone who has already been there, using spatially accurate virtual environments makes sharing design ideas faster than presenting those same outcomes with drawings and reports to a group of people.” V2i began using EPIC’s Unreal Engine platform approximately eight years ago to transform the way industry understands data and encourage the use of interactive visualisation as more than just a sales and marketing tool. Born out of that commitment was the ground-breaking V2i Realtime. Mr. Brannelly explains, “We have industries that are so full of technical drawings and reports that are little understood. Often company decision makers aren’t subject matter experts or have limited technical understanding. V2i Realtime gives them the tools to deeply understand the context behind their plans or investments and make better informed decisions as a result. Our technology is introduced as early on in the product lifecycle as possible for optimal planning and communication and to enable our clients to understand outcomes early on. By helping them make better decisions from the start, we prevent a lot of back and forth in design, testing and prototyping, which saves time and money. We work to lead them on a journey of how technology can truly transform the way we do business, make decisions, save time and money, and understand what a particular issue is about from day one in the project lifecycle- and it’s all enabled by these emerging visual based technologies.” V2i Realtime uses EPIC’s Unreal Engine in collaboration with geospatial data specialists Cesium and Amazon Web Services to allow clients to walk, fly, measure, and understand their projects and their environments with interactive 3D technology, using nothing more than the web browser on consumer devices (Example Link: https://youtu.be/DySZL-aoD04) . Participants are able to walk together in a virtual space and take control of their surroundings, which is based on project data and real-world capture, consolidated into a single, accurate environment. Benefits include increased engagement, improved understanding, significant savings in time and money, real time communication, project- specific solutions, data-driven insights, efficient communication, collateral generation, and the ability to derive all media outputs from a single 3D environment controlled by the client and supported by V2i. V2i Realtime’s offering has won a plethora of awards, with just a few examples being Telstra’s 2022 Best of Business Award (Finalist- Embracing Innovation), UDIA Queensland’s 2020 Wildcard Award (Winner), and the Property Council of Australia’s 2019 Innovation & Excellence Award (Finalist). The in-house production team behind V2i has also been recognised by the 2017 and 2018 iAwards (Research and Development Project of the Year) for solving the various technical challenges that made it all possible. Some noteworthy project examples include the previously mentioned Cross River Rail digital twin, a Brisbane-wide V2i Realtime model Queensland’s highest priority infrastructure project. The digital twin for this project is based on a regional digital terrain and photogrammetry model, including the entire Brisbane CBD and surrounding suburbs, with 10.2km of proposed rail line, 5.9km of tunnel and all proposed underground stations and associated above- ground co-developments in full visual detail (Case Study Link: https://v2irealtime.com/case- study/cross-river-rail/). Another high profile virtual rail project in full swing has been developed in response to a tender request for a digital twin of the planned Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 4 extension by the Queensland Government Department of Transport and Main Roads (Case Study Link: https://v2irealtime.com/case-study/gclr4/) , extensively used for design consultation and political as well as community stakeholder engagement. Another division of the same department engaged V2i in early 2020 to assist with internal stakeholder and business case discussions, at a state and federal level, for the proposed Coomera Connector M1 highway duplication (https://youtu.be/R9xuLxQlPGY ), Queensland largest road project, with nearly 50 kilometres of road infrastructure design affecting a great number of local stakeholders with