Virtual reality goggles convert architectural drawings into a world you can enter
Pull on a pair of virtual reality goggles, and you forget you’re in a conference room among colleagues.
The real world slips away.
Suddenly you’re standing inside a restaurant. You can walk past the dining tables, around the service counter and into the kitchen. You can reach up to the pendant lights to see if they’re high enough. You can duck below the sinks to inspect the plumbing.
“This is where the magic happens,” says John Nall, Irvine Company’s senior manager of Innovation and Enterprise Productivity, who is testing ways the company can use virtual reality to improve the design process for its retail and office spaces and homes.