The construction company DIRTT (Doing It Right This Time) is using Doom's open-source engine, ICE, to design rooms for hospitals and offices.

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Popular Science originally reported that DIRTT chose to use a variation of the ICE engine to blueprint their rooms in hopes of preventing order changes, or underestimating the amount of resources and labor a contractor needs for a project. ICE "melts" with other design programs, making it easier for DIRTT to efficiently design a room, piping and all.DIRTT said that using this method has reduced the time it takes to construct a room, and is looking into using virtual reality devices to simplify the design process even more."Imagine, if you slapped on those Oculus glasses, you could view what changes to make as if you were in the room," Scott Jenkins, DIRTT's president, told Popular Science.The original Doom was released in 1993. Id Software revealed that the series is getting its next installment for PC, PS4, and Xbox One at QuakeCon 2014.

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