CAVE System Technique as One of the Most Important Applications of Virtual Reality in Architecture

Abstract

Virtual reality technology is the most important techniques reached by thetechnological revolution in the last decades of the twentieth century. It had a significantimpact in various fields of life, especially in the field of architecture through thepresentation and realizing the product of architecture,The improve in technology and virtual reality techniques, including CAVE systemwas depend on how to understand the third dimension of space and sense of it. So it wasnecessary to keep pace with this development locally in Iraq and try to show its impact onthis evolution in the perception of space and the sense of being part of it.From here the research problem identified as: (the impact of the cave systemtechniques in the perception of space at the local level). The aim of this research was toshow the improvement in receiver perception when the technological developmentstaking place in the world of virtual reality.To achieve this aim the research follows these steps:• Develop a comprehensive theoretical framework by presentation the most importantfactors affected in the receiver perception and the properties of perceived characteristicsof space to identify the most important items that affect the process of cognition and thecharacteristics of the cognitive space perceived.• Creating a local virtual environment experience using a cave system technology, andapplied to an architectural project designed by the researcher in the Department ofArchitecture - University of Technology.• Measure the level of awareness of the recipient when using the cave systemtechnology that have been created in this research by comparing with the normalcomputer screen technology.The research reach a number of conclusions showing improvement in the performanceof technical CAVE system in the perception of space compared to traditional techniquesthe computer screen.