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James Lee Burgess
What has Augmented and Mixed Reality got to do with Architecture?
James Lee Burgess is an ARB-registered architect and Founding Director of UrbanXR, an augmented and mixed reality studio for the built environment.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- UrbanXR
- Location
- Norfolk, England
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0159 · Architecture Social
What has Augmented and Mixed Reality got to do with Architecture?
Whatever happened to QR Codes and overlaid information in the real world? Does Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) still play a role in the architectural design and construction of our built environment?
Explore episode moments
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- 05:00 · AR, Pokemon Go and public adoption · Audio only
- 10:00 · Cameras, glasses and the social contract around AR · Audio only
- 15:00 · James Lee Burgess on architecture and immersive platforms · Audio only
- 20:00 · Demonstrations, public apps and interactive content · Audio only
- 25:00 · Unity, game engines and upskilling from architecture · Audio only
- 30:00 · Revit models, performance limits and HoloLens workflows · Audio only
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
James Lee Burgess is an ARB-registered architect and the Founding Director of UrbanXR, an augmented reality and mixed reality studio focused on the built environment. He studied architecture at Cardiff University, completed his year out and spent around ten years working in London on social housing and mixed-use projects before relocating to Norfolk.
He founded his own practice in 2019, initially as a traditional architecture studio, and invested early in mixed reality through Microsoft HoloLens 2 on construction sites before moving fully into augmented and mixed reality development. His work spans planning and public consultation, heritage storytelling and the on-site visualisation of proposed schemes, combining an architect's understanding of how people use space with tools such as the Unity game engine and the Immersal visual positioning system. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: What has Augmented and Mixed Reality got to do with Architecture?.
The practice
UrbanXR
UrbanXR is a Norfolk-based augmented and mixed reality studio creating world-scale AR experiences for architecture, urban design and the built environment.
Architecture practice · Norfolk
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- UrbanXR
- Location
- Norfolk, England
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2022
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