Following the launch of the Vision Pro headset last year, Lowe's hardware stores began offering an in-store Apple Vision Pro experience to try out its 3D "Style Studio" app and experience for kitchen renovation design.
Lowe's made the Vision Pro experience available to customers at select stores in North Carolina, California, and New Jersey, but now it is expanding to five Lowe's locations in Austin, Texas and the surrounding area. Lowe's said that its pilot test was successful, which is why the Vision Pro will roll out to new locations.
Lowe's Style Studio lets customers view a 3D kitchen environment that can be customized with hundreds of real-world materials, fixtures, and appliances. The app is available in the Vision Pro App Store, but customers who do not have a Vision Pro can use it at Lowe's stores.
Since the initial test run, Lowe's has added new options including trending colors and popular kitchen designs. There's also a new teleport feature that lets users view their kitchen from different viewpoints within the room, without moving.
A Lowe's employee will guide customers through the kitchen creation process during a one-on-one 45-minute appointment, where there are 80 billion design combinations available. Completed kitchen setups can be saved, emailed, texted, or AirDropped as a PDF, with the content in the kitchen able to be purchased through Lowe's.
Sessions are free, and customers in the Austin area can book a consultation online using the Lowe's website. Vision Pro headsets will be available at Texas stores for approximately three months, with appointments to start on March 15.
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This is an excellent use of this sort of technology
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This app is only available for Apple Vision Pro.
But I do not pretend it is for everyone. Even when I first got it on release day, I thought that this TECHNOLOGY could significantly change media and computing, but the device itself was not the medium.
I have lived and worked in Hollywood for 31 years. Designing a shoot around the AVP for a dramatic show or sitcom is something I really, really want to do but no one will give me the 100K I need to do a test case. I would like to have a sitcom/show shot, and then re-film the show using the AVP as a perspective centerpiece. I think an audience member INSIDE the scene would be great and have a lot of appeal. So far only a few terrible p*rn attempts have been made but they have neither talent nor anything engaging to be honest.
I would have hoped that Apple Originals would have done that as an experiment by now. I do like the Apple Immersive videos, but for the most part they are not endlessly re-watchable like a DIE HARD or GODFATHER or GLADIATOR.
The 3D of AVP is by far the best in the business. My eyes cannot handle the three different technologies that project 3D in theaters, and that is my dang eyes' fault. I get headaches and blurry vision and cannot handle more than a few minutes. But 3D on the AVP is amazing, painless and far superior quality than any of the projected systems. 3D as a presentation has lost its pop appeal and very few things are expected to be 3D again, and I am OK with that. But DEADPOOL vs WOLVERINE in AVP 3D is a complete joy.