Healthcare | Virtual Reality

Using virtual reality to evaluate patient experience, environmental impact, and design options

Client

Replacement Hospital

Industry

Healthcare

Service

Experiential Environment and Virtual Reality

Orange Flower

About my role on this project:

As Experiential Environments Designer, I developed a set of immersive virtual reality experiences for a major replacement hospital project serving the west LA communities. Built in Unity3D, the work helped project teams, stakeholders, and community groups evaluate both the patient experience and the hospital’s relationship to its surrounding neighborhood before construction. The VR deliverables included an exterior environmental experience synchronized with 3D acoustic recordings to simulate neighborhood conditions, as well as immersive walkthroughs of the hospital lobby and a full-scale patient room mockup used for design optioneering. The patient room experience was designed to evaluate multiple aspects of performance simultaneously, including room configuration, circadian lighting, façade structural shading, and sound acoustics. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Data Stack: BIM | LiDAR | 360 Video Photography | 3D Microphone | PBR Materials | Daylighting | Photometric Lighting | Unity3D C#