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Last year at a conference I went to one of the speakers was with a company that makes VR headsets/software that incorporates 3d models of construction projects so that contractors on site can walk around in an augmented reality version of the completed project on site to see where stuff is supposed to go. They had a system where you could set a point in the model, print a QR code, tape it to the wall at the job site in the same place, then scan it with the head set so everything would sink up and you could walk around the site.

The presentation ended with him laughing about how the only client they had sold on it so far was a DOT who bought 2 units, then shelved both of them after a week because (shocker) it turns out its not safe to have people in headsets try to navigate an augmented reality overlay in the middle of an active construction site.

After the presentation the presenter was hanging around and talking about how they are basically trying to resell it as you can use it to have virtual meetings from different locations in the 3d model to walk around it in cyber space together.