Back in 2003, I conceptualized the marriage of AutoCAD 3D Designing (LDD - Land Development Desktop) with FPS Gaming (Doom and Quake) to create a virtual atmosphere to aid in visualization of Civil Engineering Design. Virtual headset and hand controls, with a 3D rendering of your surveyed site and design 3D grades, as well as 3D utilities, etc.
I submitted the concept to Dave Simeone with Autodesk and it was received with a message that they were heading in that direction and would like to discuss further. I was then suddenly dropped, like a hot rock, with the explanation that the concept was too futuristic. (What?????) This was just prior to the release of Civil 3D (2005) and I think the 3D capabilities were what Dave was excited about. VR was too futuristic.
Virtual Reality, as we know it today, was in its infancy back then, but what about now?
Architects and Structural Engineers have jumped on board, but what about Autodesk?
Huh?
Bueller? ............... Bueller?
Autodesk? ............... Anybody listening?