GoKawiilThe coolest use for the Vision Pro
One day there will hopefully be a house on this land
Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools.
After years of apartment life my girlfriend and I have recently begun the process of building our (first! exciting!) home, which is an absolute whirlwind of choices and decisions. Maybe it’s where we’re both programmers, but particularly for me, my software-oriented brain feels almost incompatible with this world of designing a home (she’s the main one keeping this project moving forward).
In software if you don’t end up liking a feature after playing around with it for awhile, you can tweak it or remove it entirely (try doing that with a poorly placed wall). Here, decisions feel huge and hard to commit to.
On top of this, the housing market is really expensive right now in many parts of the world (ours definitely included) so making good use of every square foot feels paramount.
(Don’t worry, we have a great architect who guides us skillfully, but ultimately it’s up to us to sign off on everything!)
Enter the Vision Pro
Looking at PDFs of potential floor plans, you don’t (or at least I don’t) develop much of a sense of scale or connections with a bunch of black rectangles. This room says it’s 13 feet by 15 feet, I guess I can get out a measuring tape, but what does that feel like? Would this hallway be cramped? What all can you see when you first walk into the house?
Then it hit me: virtual reality! There’s other VR devices that have better gaming chops, but I’m not sure there’s a consumer device out there that’s better than the Vision Pro on paper when it comes to rendering a virtual world with its high resolution screens and then placing you in it with its abundance of sensors.
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