Breeze Aire VR Walkthrough

In 2014, Blu Homes opened its first model home and Design Center on Mare Island, Vallejo CA.  Alongside other digital applications designed to illustrate and explain the Blu Homes process, we wanted to give visitors an immersive experience of being inside a Blu home, as well as demonstrate our involvement with the latest technologies. We chose to build this demo around the Breeze Aire (our newest home at the time), and let potential customers experience being inside one before any had been built.

Using my Revit to Unity pipeline, Digital Tools 3D artists created a visualization of the Breeze Aire in Unity. I then turned that static visualization into an interactive VR walkthrough for the Oculus Rift. Viewers can switch between day and night, and also switch from Oculus VR mode to a standard single-screen mode. Since then, this experience has been installed in three model homes in total, as well as shown to several hundred visitors at the 2014 Dwell on Design shows in Los Angeles and New York.

Here is a YouTube video showing the walkthrough in action (non-VR mode, originally uploaded by my Digital Tools colleague Josh Appleman):

·https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztWAi5U89w