Step into the world of Virtual Reality with CommonFloor Retina

The world of virtual reality is fascinating. You can experience a live concert, an apocalypse, a war zone and what not with a virtual reality headset that creates the environment right where you want it. It’s one of the biggest next gen. technology, which will and have already find its application in a number of fields such as gaming, designing, simulation, defense, aircraft, etc.

Some of the biggest technology enterprises have already made huge investments in virtual reality products. To name some; you have Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive and Sony's Project Morpheus. However, all these are pricey products and are not easily available in India.

But that doesn’t mean you cannot experience the fun technology. Google Cardboard is one such product that aims to provide Virtual Reality into the hands of everyday people. As the name suggests, it is built of cardboard (cut-out pieces) with a pair of lenses and a smartphone mounted as the virtual reality headset. You can buy one online at just Rs.350 (Getcardboard) as the starting price. The price goes up to Rs. 2,000 with different brands.

As we said earlier, virtual reality finds its application in a variety of fields. One such is Real estate. With a virtual reality headset, you can experience the various aspects of a real estate project without even visiting the site.

Common Floor, an online real estate platform has smartly incorporated the technology into its ecosystem. Their product-CommonFloor Retina is the combination of Google cardboard, an in-house developed app and an android device. To use CommonFloor Retina, a user simply needs to sport the headgear to experience virtual tour of the property of his/her choice. You need to install the CommonFloor Retina application from the Play store, which integrates various properties from builders.

The headgear creates a 3D experience of the property and let a buyer understand various perspectives about the property such as space, ambience, etc. The device has a magnetic liver on the left side, which takes you to different areas of the property such as living room, kitchen, lobby, etc.

This affordable device is one really useful product for builders who want to cut the cost and space to construct a model apartment, which takes time and a good investment. Builders can install the headgears in their offices to give buyers a demo of their project or can send their executives to buyer’s home for the same.

The platform currently supports Android smartphones LG Nexus 4 and above, Moto G 2nd gen, Samsung Galaxy 4 and above, Moto X and the Xiaomi Mi3. We also tested the headgear on Z9 Nubia, Samsung galaxy Note 2, which was not the best experience, but kind of worked.

Besides this, the headgear can be used to experience various other interesting applications. Some of them are 3D games which are quite fun to play with. Here are some apps which you can download from the Play store:

Lamper VR, Vrse, Insidious VR, InMind, etc.