Hypereality

A big success for Barber Osgerby and for British design as a brand. 

For those not in the world of design it may not be obvious how significant this kind of thing is.  And lets face it for most people a chair is a horizontal buttock support and not a lot more.  

a) If you design for Vitra you are ALREADY in the company of Charles Eames. 

b) A big buy like this and the seal of approval from Ive is the next step on the road to design canonisation. 

c) For a designer,  to have a classic chair in their portfolio is a bit like getting an Oscar.  I've worked with a few really good designers in my day who are at this kind of level and one of them, for a hobby collected miniature models of these chairs and paid a significant portion of the price of an actual chair for the models. 

Having said all that, my Aeron exec with shiny Chrome beats any other chair I've used and is specced for my just-sub NFL player sized bones, something I can't get with most office chairs. 

Some of my customers want another version of my app and its convenient for them to place an order and get it when its released.  

With a pre-order and a window of 8 weeks it will allow me to beta test the app,  see what the demand is and possibly add features based on market demand and my beta test results.  I can also introduce the app for a pre-order price to attract existing users and reward their loyalty with that discount and then put the price up after the release day. 

Now the AR and VR developers at Apple have something fast enough to develop on. 

For me its a tad expensive, I can get 22k Geekbench on my iMac 5k and 32Gb RAM is enough.  

I would like this machine as its nearly twice as fast with the 10 core, but guessing its going to be nearer £6,000.00 in UK pounds, so hard to justify. 

slprescott said:

Would the phone need 2 front-facing cameras to capture 3D?

There are quite a few different ways to capture 3D with a monocular sensor.  The way it works on Google Tango is that there is a laser that projects a 'structured light' network over the scene (think graph paper that the eye cannot see).  Then an infrared sensor picks up the laser light and this is used to construct a depth map (point cloud) by reverse calculating from the distorted grid from the camera back to the transformation needed to make the structure normal. As the phone moves around the depth map is corrected and built up over time and progressively becomes more accurate.  

So while there is only one camera, there is structured light emitted from a separate location on the device.  In this article both a sensor is discussed as well as a VCSEL laser.  One laser to illuminate the scene and a sensor to record it.  That's enough to read a 3D point cloud from the scene.