excited to be here
how's everybody doing? good!
all right so it's such
well first of all - a thank you to
design reality Josh and Chris it's just
amazing the community that has been
built here I'm so proud to be a part of
it it's really an incredible time to be
creative in a designer and I I'm so
excited by it, honestly. My career has been
as a software developer working
sort of at this intersection of virtual
space and physical space so predominantly that has
been built you know working with
software that's meant for the built
environment like the museum exhibit or
public space or an event space where you
have this convergence of like a giant
interactive screen or projection map
surface and and then a place where
people are gathering like this and
oftentimes you know it's a it's a
struggle and ask myself why I do this
because designing software is hard and
to be honest designing something visible
as you long though is also extremely
hard and to match those things together
creates all new problems and I really
was reflective about this years ago or a
few years ago when I was thinking about
what I wanted to do with spatial 
media and what I realized is that I'm
just I can't there's too much of me that
just loves visible space and just the
interaction between people to just go
full Internet like I'm just that's not me
I can't go fully virtual. I just love
what it means
to be a person living in this room
connecting with other people and and I
want that from my other caption which is
you know this this amazing connective
world we live in with our technology and
so I started exploring that more and
more and thinking about these physical
spaces and what brought me to them
and what I realized is is that what I
really love about the space is that
every space honestly this space every
space you go into will evoke an
emotion out of you, and whether the
designer intended it honestly or what a
big didn't some spaces are chaotic some
spaces are our tranquil some feel like
home hopefully your home feels like home
and that's sort of the magic of it
that's the magic of being human being a
human walking into these different
structures is that connection to an
emotional experience and so what I
kind of pull back and realize then after
after sort of talking to more and more
architects and interior designers and
retail designers really literally
hundreds of people over the course of
our research base is that spatial design
is experience design and oftentimes you
get very caught up in the practicalities
of creating a space and we have software
that addresses that I mean build is
incredible like the software that
Autodesk makes full stack like the
capabilities of creating precision and
all this integration and months the
lifecycle of a product project is is
incredibly powerful and you've seen them
huge lots of examples of that today but
the sort of gap that I found is in just
purely the experiential side of that and
and so I started to deconstruct
saying okay well what is it about
experience design that we could bring to
this field of spatial designers
architects interior designers retail
designers landscape architects all of
these people who their profession is
taking an idea and translating it into
the physical world someplace well why
don't we have a tool that's meant for
designing an experience why don't we
have tools that are meant not only for
designing and experiencing something
immersed by yourself but as we discussed
we experience spaces together in a group
amongst others in real time our design
teams are are are large most of them on
any of the sufficiently ambitious
project you're working with stakeholders
on the client side a large design team
different trades people working on the
interior exterior um all of those people
have to come together into a shared
vision of what's being built and so we
set about to build the wild now the wild
is a collaboration platform for
designers to create and share their
experiences the wild is built just
natively from the ground up as a
multi-user shared space so they can be
architecture may be similar to Google
Docs where where you have these
resources in the cloud that you can log
into and you can be in there at the same
time or you can dream they're separately
but everyone's always up to date looking
at the current version and to show you
today on the wild I'm going to invite
Ganesha from our team to join us in this
space Nisha
are we able yeah go ahead so we should
be actually in in the back of the back
of the space here look hey hey go ahead
jump in there
you know okay back to be honest I'm
gonna jump me for a live demo I love
live demos and I love the opportunist is
sometimes great but okay you gotta hit
the power button you've got to start it
up you've got to jump in there I'm just
going to start talking about a little
bit and telling you guys so it's a
connected environment basically you can
join together in these shared spaces in
real time the wild is is meant as a sort
of ideation tool primarily so massing is
very simple in the wild you can you can
create a massive study and and visualize
it both for yourself and others Oh
amazing
I hear him Misha let's do this okay so
Misha is a product manager he is right
here in a bizarre form you can see that
he can hear us we can talk to him and he
is we are sharing this space okay go
ahead and let's let's get started Misha
okay so we're going to tell more here
into immersive mode and you get started
all right so you'll see first off weird
what's this is a sort of configuration
we're going with here is we're running
on our desktop viewer on one computer
that's how we're all joining the space
from just a regular you can join from
Mac or Windows just a regular laptop or
a desktop computer you then
We're watching Misha who is working with his
hands in VR right now you'll see
here this amazing quote to the right of the
screen, "how can we make the computer
respond to our hand
rather than the hand responding to the computer" and I
love this quote when I stumbled upon it of
course you know incredible designer but
you know it really is sort of
fundamental to what we're trying to do
is as a designer, it's not just about
working in immersive mode and it's not
just about working and looking around
and having that VR experience it's about
working with your hands again it's about
I mean who doesn't you know think that
are with your bodies than with your just
your mind alone is this synergy of
getting back to the practicality of what
it means to work with your hands even
when you're working in an intellectual
medium like being a designer and
architect of retail design interior
design or whatever you're trying to do
working with your hands are getting back
to that physicality of standing and
grabbing things and manipulating the
environment is incredibly powerful
in it opens up all kinds of
possibilities for creating a mind-body
connection that is is honestly like
refreshing once you start doing it and
and so you see here we're sort of
creating this massive study for maybe
this this concept building that could be
built on a on a the side of this
mountain and so now I want to I want to
go show you how we're able to take this
and go to the next level so we should go
ahead and bring out a portal Taylor if
you could pull back and show them that
okay so this is basically the wireless
builds it's a series of spaces that you
have access to and we moved between
those spaces by spawning them with these
portals we she's able to go inside of it
and then he's on the other side of that
and then we chose a
to move forward and put us into it and
transport us into this new space so this
is a space designed by open studio
collective but a local design confirm
who we are working with to sort of
visualize their content and it was this
was probably designed in Sketchup but
there is a full workflow for bringing
your models in from applications like
Sketchup and you can see that then we
can fully visualize this in in the space
xavier should be joining us here as well
are you are you around xavier great okay
that's okay
music and shows so let's go ahead and
teleport ourselves into this this space
here and once the Xavier gets here
that'll be awesome okay so basically
we've got an interior space here we're
gonna show you what it looks like to lay
it out he's going to go ahead and let's
be accurate the middle barrier so we're
gonna show you basically the world in
the world you have access to what we
call the library so it's this magical
portal that you can spawn in front of
your body and it basically is sort of
like a drop box built into the wild it
gives you access to all of the models
that you that you have in your anchor
disposal everything in the library can
be shared with other users or team
members you can really efficiently
access that content industry
your team in real time to build a great
shared library of content that's a big
thing for designing in inside of any
sort of more immersive time whether
you're in our vendor reality or virtual
reality that's really important is to
have access to content and so having a
way that you can bring that directly
into the space as quickly as possible
whether you're downloading those those
models from a manufacturer's website or
from a like you've all done internally
in another application you're bringing
them in we want to give you access to
all of that natively inside the world
you can see how quickly you can sort of
come up with the concept and mature a
concept in real time in you know these
few seconds that we're sitting here and
then give an idea of what it's like to
be in that space and not just in that
space alone but in that space with
multiple people so inside of the wild
you can join together with up to eight
different team members joining from
different platforms in real time and and
that's honestly super important I mean
that's sort of what I found this is the
pivotal thing here is is not just being
able to design on your own but being
able to enjoy that space with others and
experience that space with others so
that you can understand how does this
feel about ten people in here versus two
people in here
how does it feel to sit around this
table and talk
what's the spacing in this narrow
hallway like you know it's it's much
different when you're there alone versus
when when you're there in a group so you
see how sort of efficient it is to work
and you can see also he's just
manipulating his scale in real time
that's another big part of it is being
able to really efficiently go from from
London
to this to this large-scale and for
anyone who's working together inside the
space to be able to manipulate their own
scale in real time okay so let's go
ahead and we show actually how are you
feeling about this we chose or we either
again close here on this design maybe
get some chairs out so are we gonna try
to actually now this is good okay we're
gonna get a lesson with let's move over
to a are okay so the wild is
fundamentally and XR platform we really
believe that this technology is is most
powerful when it's merged across
different mediums and so from the ground
up we've really invested in it not just
as this virtual reality design tool but
because we you know our customers are
spatial designers we wanted to be able
to blend that idea into a built
environment and so here you see we've
got Melissa who's over here our design
director is holding an iPad that we're
looking through that you're looking at
me through and you can see me she is
right here to my side and able to start
designing in real time so we should go
ahead and jump up and mouse out along so
you see he has still access to all of
his same tools he has the ability to to
create that in in real time he's able to
take those materials and apply them to
any masses that are created if you can
drag furniture out all of this data is
being real time stream between all of
these devices from our cloud and it's
amazing you know the different use cases
the jump up we miss out hello a perfect
okay so the different use cases that you
can get when you do this like
crazy experience here where we're giving
this presentation and then all the way
you know Misha is you know physically
detached from this but you know honestly
he could be anywhere like we have
customers now that are working across
the country across the world joining
together like this in this in this crazy
you know mixed reality experience and
and and a bubble of these emergent use
cases that are coming up when you think
about it not just as a simulation
environment not just as a modeling
environment but it's a connected
experience real environment that is
bringing people and their ideas together
across distance across time into this
new reality that we are all sharing and
if anything that's the fundamental thing
that we sort of believe is this is a
sort of technique of theme of mine yes a
giant pet peeve of mine when people call
it real reality I just sort of
fundamentally believe that real is sort
of a misnomer in this case like we have
we have virtual content and virtual
space and we have physical space and the
reality that were creating is really
just this new mishmash
mishmash reality but extended reality is
really what it is and and honestly it's
all real at this point it's all real you
can have a very real experience just
like a mere coming right now that is
this synergy of physical and digital in
an all-new way and that is the great
power that great super power of being
creatives in this day and time that's
sort of the the magic of being able to
have an idea and experience it together
in a way that you used to only be able
to have in your dream space and now you
can have it together in a connect
real-time physical space so we're gonna
go ahead and jump over into one last
space which gives our contact
information go ahead yep there you go
there you go so here's my contact
information our website is the wild calm
today is a very exciting day for us
because we are finally opening up our
our products we've been working on that
since January of 2017 it's been through
a crazy evolution in that time we've had
we have had customers in early access
you know for this this entire year and
now we're sort of opening it up to the
broader market so if you're interested
in the wild if you like what you've seen
here and you think that you could
benefit from integrating this as a part
of your workflow go to the wild calm
apply for access and we will be more
than thrilled to get you on board and
into this environmentally instead of
your team if you have any questions feel
free to grab me and ask or if you didn't
get a chance to do a demo before please
jump on the back and try it out thank
you for your time I'm gay
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