A friend of mine's husband built a new location for his business and the architecture firm used VR to helped him see what his place would be like. It seems only logical for much larger initiatives like this one to ensure that a lot of plans get revised earlier on in the planning process, such as figuring out the optimal lighting (as mentioned in the article). I'm sure most of us live in cities where we know of a story of an expensive project that had a mishaps because of a lack of foresight.
I just talked to a friend of mine who is an architect. He said most buildings look only good as model and when they are build they are only ugly blocks.<p>Even when rendered most architects play around with perspective to get their "ugly blocks" to look nice.<p>I said they should force the architects to design with VR and let them see the finished building from above only after they got the important stuff done, so the focus of the design is the people walking around and not the top down view on the building.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the photo of the interior of the building: panopticon.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon</a>
Have some unrelated Google Maps trivia I just discovered.<p>1. Scroll down to the map and the end, and zoom all the way in. For me the tileset goes back in time to before the building was finished. I initially thought "wow, Google merged an overhead render from the architect!", but when I followed the "View larger map" link zooming in showed the completed building. TIL Maps uses different tilesets for different APIs!<p>2. See your avatar at the top-right of the embedded map view? Hover that, and you'll see "+YourUsername", just like in the old +Google days. Wow :P<p>I'm guessing this site is using a legacy embed API or something. These were fun glitches to stumble on though.
Why are headquaters allways non-modular? Usually such structures get to small the day, the company moves in. So why not integrate growth-ability into a building?
I know this is pedantic, but Nvidia isn't really a "microchip maker" as the article says so much as designer since they're fab-less.
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