VR guinea pigs – Through the Interface

On Friday we had our first external visitors to the VR room at Autodesk Neuchatel. Jose and Erich came across from Amstein + Walthert, an engineering firm headquartered in Zurich. Jose had reached out to me – we’ve been in contact a few times, over the years – as he’d read about the VR room on this blog and was curious to try it out.

The room still isn’t 100% ready – we’re waiting for some furniture to show up – but it seemed a good opportunity to try out some of our VR demos on live volunteers.

Here’s the rundown of the demos that we walked through, showing a range of VR and AR projects:

  • Google Earth VR
    • I’m showing this a lot as an intro to VR: the UX is best-in-class and a great example of what’s possible.

Jose and Erich in Google Earth VR

  • Autodesk LIVE
    • We fired up Revit with one of A + W’s models which we then published to Stingray via the LIVE plugin.
    • While this was processing we took a look at the enhanced Villa Martini sample model, which gives a great sense of both LIVE’s…

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