Immersive Technologies-Driven Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Context of Metaverse

At present, considering the novelty of Immersive Technologies (ImTs) associated with Digital Twin (DT), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented (AR), and Mixed (MR) in context metaverse its rapid ongoing development Building Information Modeling (BIM), knowledge specific possibilities methods for integrating ImTs into building process workflows remains fragmented scarce. Therefore, this paper aims to explore research progress trends immersive technology-driven BIM applications, providing a helpful reference understanding current system stimulating future research. To best authors’ knowledge, is first attempt use macro-quantitative bibliometric analysis micro-qualitative topic ImTs-driven BIM. This study obtains 758 related studies past decade, year 2013 2022, through series keywords from Web Science Core Collection database uses VOSviewer software conduct co-occurrence overlay visualisation visualise relationship between BIM, which contains six clusters, namely VR, Internet Things (IoT), DT, 3D model, design, AR. The on applications throughout all stages lifecycle reveals themes, content, characteristics across stages, tend be integrated emerging advanced technology tools, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, deep learning.