{"id":19377,"date":"2022-05-08T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T04:38:04","slug":"apartment-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/08\/apartment-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"ApARtment hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the Google teams working on augmented reality, there was a low-key religious war about the importance of &#8220;metric scale&#8221; (i.e. matching real-world proportions 1:1). The ARCore team believed it was essential (no surprise, given their particular tech stack), while my team (Research) believed that simply placing things in the world with a best guess as to size, then letting users adjust an object if needed, was often the better path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought of this upon seeing StreetEasy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/youll-soon-be-able-to-search-nyc-apartments-using-augmented-reality-on-streeteasy-050422\">new AR tech for apartment-hunting in NYC<\/a>. At the moment it lets you scan a building to see its inventory. That&#8217;s very cool, but my mind jumped to the idea of seeing 3D representations of actual apartments (<a href=\"https:\/\/streeteasy.com\/blog\/virtual-home-tours-nyc\/\">something the company already offers<\/a>, albeit not in AR), and I&#8217;m amused to think of my old Manhattan place represented in AR: drawing it as a tiny box at one&#8217;s feet <em>would<\/em> be metric scale. &#x1f605; My God that place sucked. Anyway, we&#8217;ll see how useful this tech proves &amp; where it can go from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;A StreetEasy Instagram poll found that 95% of people have walked past an apartment building and wondered if it has an available unit that meets their criteria. At the same time, 77% have had trouble identifying a building\u2019s address to search for later.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"863\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.jpeg 850w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-295x300.jpeg 295w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-768x780.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the Google teams working on augmented reality, there was a low-key religious war about the importance of &#8220;metric scale&#8221; (i.e. matching real-world proportions 1:1). The ARCore team believed it was essential (no surprise, given their particular tech stack), while my team (Research) believed that simply placing things in the world with a best guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19382,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions\/19382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}