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I got one of those great headsets but I'm wondering how to put myself "inside" the model. Kubity has a new format now, but the initial view is always a distant ISO view, now in 3D perspective. Do I physically walk to get inside? I can't rotate and pan the image while the touch screen phone is in the headset. If I need to walk to the model, I'm no longer in the clients office. If I load an interior model to look around the space, Kubity still starts at a distant ISO view.

Never mind. Actually used the headset for the first time today. The program puts a small dot mid screen. Hold it on your desired point of view for a couple of seconds and the software automatically moves to that viewpoint. Nice!

What is your overall impression of Kubity with the headset?
I've not used it myself.

Bob

It's really pretty clever. I was wondering how to walk around, but there is a dot in the middle of the screen that functions as a "go to" target identifier. So if I'm inside a large auditorium of a church I've designed, I put the marker on the stage by a worship leader, and in a second the software has reconfigured the perspective and I'm standing on stage looking at the audience. Outside, I can see an advantage to placing "viewing stands" in 3d space to use for viewpoints. Picking points on a parking lot is very easy and I can look around at a campus of buildings very nicely. For a higher viewpoint, I just put the target on a parking lot light and the viewpoint moved to up there.
Kubity is free and the headset is only $15. Give it a try.

Dwight, do you have the Google Cardboard or a Samsung unit, or something else? Can you post links?

I have an iPhone 6, the headset is VR Box Virtual Reality Glasses for 13.99 at Dick's 5 and Dime, Branson, MO. If you're not near Branson, it's also on the web at several similar prices. Some links show a remote. I can see how that might be handy for games, but Kubity really doesn't run that way. I don't have a remote for this.

https://www.amazon.com/Box-BTQ007-Virtu ... B00CK8LDAG

Thanks - I learned something new today!

DBrennfoerder wrote:It's really pretty clever. I was wondering how to walk around, but there is a dot in the middle of the screen that functions as a "go to" target identifier. So if I'm inside a large auditorium of a church I've designed, I put the marker on the stage by a worship leader, and in a second the software has reconfigured the perspective and I'm standing on stage looking at the audience. Outside, I can see an advantage to placing "viewing stands" in 3d space to use for viewpoints. Picking points on a parking lot is very easy and I can look around at a campus of buildings very nicely. For a higher viewpoint, I just put the target on a parking lot light and the viewpoint moved to up there.
Kubity is free and the headset is only $15. Give it a try.

Dwight,

Thanks for the feedback! I'm anxious to see what the paid version of Kubity brings to the table. The development so far has been promising.
I am getting annoyed having to renew the models every seven days but a the current price I really can't complain to much.

Bob