The architect sat down, I explained the 360 controls and what the camera did. After he put it over his head he tried to look up using the controller, and asked me if that was possible. I told him to just look up with his head, after that it was silent for a good 2 minutes. He carefully walked around, completely silent. Normally this man would talk a lot, constantly and really hard. My colleagues looked up with a weird expression, “I’ve never seen him quiet”.
Then a soft “unbelievable” came out of his mouth. “I didn’t expect this”, “not at all”. in the period of 15 minutes he occasionally broke the silence with;
“How is this already possible”, “I get it now, I’m so happy I didn’t put more bridges in the main hall”, “I can now finally see how important it is that this wall is yellow”, “I got to change that, amazing that I can finally see it”, “this opens so much to me”. And some more reactions like that.
He finally put the Rift off his head, his eyes were in a total state of blown away. He put the Rift away and just sat there, saying nothing. Some colleagues were giggling and I asked how he liked it. It looked like my question was just some noise to him, and he replied, “sorry, it’s just so much information that I have to process” after 5 minutes of staring he shook his head and stood up. “I would never expect this”, “the building isn’t finished, and I’ve already been there” “as an architect, this is cheating, my god”.