Interior Design Blog

Having just won the project to supply 7000 appliances to the new Burj Khalifa multi purpose skyscraper, now the tallest in the world, this will be an invaluable tool for Miele when pitching huge projects such as this to allow clients to literally walk around in the proposed setting and experience the full visual idea as well as show products which may not even be in production yet.

Eight high-resolution cinema projectors project perspective, polarised semi-images to a huge, 15m² screen of black glass. Once you put the glasses on, the images become totally 3D and the perspective surrounds you and moves as you do, because of four head tracking cameras tracking the viewer's movements.



Of course the obvious usage this could have in the world of architects and interior designers is clear but would come as a definite investment. A highly technically sophisticated system of optics, electronics and software developed for the aircraft and automobile industry, the CAVE came at a total cost of 1.6 million euros.

So, it will be quite a time before these become common practice but the Miele team does know of a handful of architects who are using the technology to 'walk' clients through prospective projects. In the mean time we just had fun taking a trip through virtual apartments, seeing future products, visiting cities and even a tropical beach. Who needs reality?

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