Building a Pioneering AR Product for Construction

Augmented reality has finally hit the construction industry not as a gimmick concept but as a real tool. Spectar is a cloud platform with applications for both HoloLens generations that Blackbird helped to develop. Specatar solutions enable BIM teams to upload their design docs to Spectar Cloud and almost immediately see their designs live at 1:1 scale on the job site.

The Challenge

Spectar team is fully focused on making the future of construction available today. However, the limitations of nowadays AR tech don't allow doing everything as wanted. BIM models might hold information about a huge skyscraper with posts the communications, and Microsoft HoloLens isn’t able to digest it posts on its own. Plus, the construction never was a one-man job: collaboration is a big part of it.

Outcomes

Blackbird developed Spectar Cloud. The web application meant to handle BIM models, model versioning, and to provide a comprehensive environment that connects BIM engineers and field workers. Any of the existing workflows like Revit, AutoCAD, Navis are supported. All BIM models can now be carefully organized by projects, versions, also converted, and automatically synced with HoloLens smartglasses.

Impact

Spectar is currently used by large construction companies on the West Coast of the United States. They already used it on multiple construction sites. However, the most publicly disclosed project is PUBG Cave in the game developer HQ. The builder had worn glasses, launched Spectar app, and built the Cave with no referring to paper blueprints, and no delays on multi-tool measurements. That simple!

“I could probably go into sales for you. It's incredible. Thanks for the great service.”

Anthony, CTO of Spectar.io
About the client11-50 employeesHQ Los Angeles, USAClient since 2018 | AR and ConstructionSMBs currently
Industry and verticalsAR & VRBIM Engineering firmsCommercial, industrialand residential developers

Full credits

Spectar io.

Client managers
Nikolai Suvorov, CEO
Anthony CorradoCTO
Meredith Zohar,CPO

Blackbird

Managers
Yurii Drozd,CEO
Dmytrii Stepanenko,Account Manager
System architects
Yurii Drozd,CEO
Developers
Oleksandr Lomakovskyi,Sr. Software Engineer
Gleb Gerasimenko, Sr. Software Engineer
Quality control
Anastasiia Shyshak,Senior QA
Designers
Ivan Zaichuk,Full-stack UX Architect

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