By Parina Vaghani & Shaily Parikh
VR is a way to escape the real world into something more fantastic. It has the potential to be the most social technology of all time
-Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus Rift
Plans
Sections
Elevations
Sketches
Images
3D Views
Plans
Sections
Elevations
Sketches Images
3D Views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFZpTbl-7mI&ab_channel=DecorillaInteriorDesigners
By Sir Charles Wheatstone
By Sir Charles Wheatstone
By Sir Charles Wheatstone
story of a pair of goggles for a fictional world
DECORILLA
was the first interior design company to use virtual reality for room designs for clients.
It is a design company, uses VR to communicate with their customers. As the company only operates online, its customers send the dimensions of their room along with the pictures. They then provide a digital listing along with a branded google cardboard viewer. This allows customers to take a 3D tour of their newly furnished room. All you have to do is insert your phone into the viewer.
MORE EFFICIENT DECISION
MAKING TOOL
A REDUCTION IN COST
No returns, no replacements or extra items left over
A REDUCTION IN COST
No returns, no replacements or extra items left over
MORE EFFICIENT USE OF TIME
Options can be experienced and alterations can be done easily
A REDUCTION IN COST
No returns, no replacements or extra items left over
MORE EFFICIENT USE OF TIME
Options can be experienced and alterations can be done easily
PURCHASES BECOME MORE INFORMED
Apps can help designers to make detailed descriptions about all materials and accesories
A new age customer wants an individual or tailor-made solution exactly according to their needs. That's why interior design community NEEDED something to communicate with their clients in an effective and detailed manner.
Furniture and Furnishing Brands
Interior Design Firms
Freelance
Interior Designers
EARLY ADOPTERS
EARLY MAJORITY
LATE MAJORITY
Gensler has started incorporating regular VR Jams to simply go to the VR station at his or her office, don a headset, and join the critique in the cloud.
HOK has even developed its own VR app – one that anyone in the industry for the general public in order to better facilitate its own design processes.
IKEA
Used to visualize products in any space from phone camera
Used to visualize products in any space from phone
camera
71%
Increase in purchases when they could view a product with VR.
Source: 20 augmented reality statistics you should know in 2022. (n.d.). 3D Product Configurator & Augmented Reality For Commerce | Threekit. https://www.threekit.com/20-augmented-reality-statistics-you-should-know-in-2020
ID-VR SOFTWARE
The biggest driver for this innovation is technology as it is purely a technological innovation.
ECONOMY
Advancement in technology can bring re-inventions and recontextualization and help speed up the diffusion process.
SOCIETY
ECONOMY
VR in Interior Design can bring a revolution in the Interior Design Market because of various factors, the biggest being it's benefits.
SOCIETY
As it is an emerging technology, using a VR tool can become a higher social symbol both for companies and clients/customers.
Helps make better decisions and bridges client-designer communication gap
Highly compatible with the past design methods and practices
Through mass media and inerpersonal channels
Easy to use, but difficult to program and work with such a technology
Higher costs lowers the trialibility
OBSERVABILITY
COMPLEXITY
TRIALIBILITY
VR tools will entirely eradicate the signs of manual drawings and design presentation methods in this new age of technology, with the lose of emotional and traditional attachment towards hand-made drawings
Designs floating widely through Virtual Reality can be a cyber threat on the Internet which can loose authenticity and exclusivity of designs and everyone can copy designs easily.
A world where everyone can see ANY space ANYWHERE.
There are as many applications for VR as you can think of, it’s restricted by your imagination.
-John Goddard, HTC Vive
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