on board , with big names including Airbnb , Delta Air Lines , easyJet , Kayak , Marriott , TUI and the Virgin Group all investing in the future of AR technologies .
Never one to fall behind on trends , the Sagrada Familia is also using data-driven technologies in a wide variety of exciting ways .
Villa said that the team is working to deploy technologies across a number of key customer relationship and customer experience areas . These include VR , AR , an external people counter , and a unified comms .
But these technologies are also equally beneficial to the maintenance of the historic site . In fact , they are proving to be instrumental in the next phase of its construction .
“ There are technologies that we already have on agenda for their practical applications . One example is the application of AR for the maintenance of facilities and
deep learning in the security and tourism scopes ,” said Villa .
The Sagrada Familia is one of the world ’ s most famous unfinished attractions . Since Gaudi died without completing his masterpiece , it was left to his successors to finish the church . Yet his notoriously elaborate and exceptionally distinctive design style meant that this was no mean feat .
However , in more recent years , this decades-long construction project has been able to use AR , VR and 3D printing to create designs that achieve a more authentic extension of Gaudi ’ s .
“ We use 3D printing to see models and designs in volume . With VR , an architect can develop the 3D model on their computer and , in just a few minutes , after transferring the model to VR glasses , they can see the model from any point of view ( including from inside ) and experience the immersion in the vision of the space that is being developed ,” Villa explained .
In this way , the data centre and the datadriven technologies that it enables are proving instrumental in the next phase of the Sagrada ’ s life . datacentremagazine . com 59