Look, a building is on my desk! You can modify its scale, take measures and all this stuff (Image from Windows Store) You can zoom it, move it and you can take measures (for example you can select a first point of the model, then a second one and take how many meters are from one point to the other). Since this is a viewer, you can’t modify anything. It is in AR inside your room, so you can put it onto your table and explore it like if it was a plastic model into an architectural studio. After it is there, you can… well, basically look at it from any angles. Pinching it and moving it, you can very simply put it where it is more comfortable to you. You select it and then you move this little diorama into the position where you want it to stay inside your room. To start you can select the model of a University that Trimble has kindly provided us. Well, but… I forgot it: what you can do with this app? You can see Sketchup models inside HoloLens. I appreciated them, since they guide you at the beginning, where you have no idea what you can do with the app. When you launch it, you see a menu and some red rectangles that guide you telling what you do. it’s the device that it’s just a first dev kit. This app seems to be particularly heavy for Microsoft device, so I’ve seen the device struggling lot of times to keep the framerate (failing most of the times). If you have ever read my posts about HoloLens issues (if not, here you are), you should know that computational power of HoloLens is something like the one of a Commodore 64, so everything runs very sloppy. First thing I noticed is that it’s heavy as hell. I’m more like a nerd, so just give me an app with some sexy cosplayer girl and I would be happier.īy the way, after having installed this “I’m rich”-like app, I launched it. I feel like it’s more a product for designers, architects, engineers and these kind of people. In ten minutes I’ve tried a $1500 app on a $3000 device: I’m like a gold-digger.Īnyway, I’m here to write my impressions about it.įirst of all, I’m not the kind of person that would use that app, so I can’t express an appreciable technical review about it: I mean, I’m not the best person to say if $1500 are worth for this app or not. Thanks to epic university teacher Andrea Bottino (of Politechnic of Turin) and his right-wing Francesco Strada, I had a chance to try it and feel like Uncle Scrooge for some minutes.
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