Architectural Visualization in VR WithTourView
TourView is Capitol Interactive's collaborative platform for architectural visualization. By leveraging existing BIM files, TourView creates fully immersive VR and AR environments where distributed teams of architects, designers, and stakeholders can collaborate in real time.
Industry: Commercial Real Estate & Architecture
multi-user collaboration for architectural teams across locations
Supercharging the Archviz Workflow
The architecture and commercial real estate industries rely on visualization to communicate design intent to clients, stakeholders, and zoning boards. Traditional renderings and walkthroughs, however, fall short of conveying spatial relationships and material qualities. Capitol Interactive built TourView to bridge this gap — a collaborative VR/AR platform that transforms existing BIM files into fully immersive, customizable environments.
Platform Capabilities
TourView integrates directly with existing architectural workflows, converting BIM files into immersive VR and AR experiences. The platform supports real-time customization, multi-user collaboration, and is available across VR and AR platforms.
Real-Time Customization
Properties in TourView can be modified in real time. Users can swap furniture styles, paint colors, and decorations — helping stakeholders visualize and validate their vision before construction begins.
Multi-User Collaboration
Multi-user support allows architects, interior designers, and stakeholders to see and collaborate with one another in real time, regardless of location — keeping distributed teams in sync.
BIM-to-VR Pipeline
TourView leverages existing BIM files from standard architecture workflows, eliminating the need to rebuild models from scratch and dramatically reducing the time from design to immersive walkthrough.
The Results
Architects and CRE companies can showcase existing or future properties to clients, stakeholders, and zoning boards in full immersion.
Distributed teams collaborate in real time on spatial design decisions without needing to be physically co-located.
The BIM-to-VR pipeline dramatically reduces the time and cost of producing architectural visualizations.
Designing Spaces Before They Exist
TourView enables architecture and real estate teams to step inside their designs before a single wall is built — aligning stakeholders, reducing costly revisions, and accelerating the path from concept to construction.
