Disclosed is a room planning and design system, comprising a virtual room
space comprising a virtual representation of a physical room space, an
object library of virtual objects, said virtual objects comprising
virtual representations of equipment, machines and objects that may be
placed in a room, a user interface comprising a first user interface
component for selecting said virtual objects from said virtual library
and positioning them in said virtual room space, a second user interface
component for manipulating the positions and orientations of said virtual
objects within said virtual room space, a workspace comprising a physical
model of said physical room space, physical marker objects substantially
scaled to said workspace for manual placement and orientation of said
markers objects in said workspace, one or more detectors for detecting
information regarding the positioning of said marker objects in said
workspace and transmitting said information to a visualization module,
and said visualization module adapted to receive said information from
said detectors and utilize said information for positioning said virtual
objects within said virtual room space.