VR May Be A Legitimate Design Tool Sooner Than You Think

Gravity Sketch is building a workflow for designers who use VR, like Google Docs for designing in virtual environments. (full article)

Tiltbrush is the ultimate sketching app. You can decorate a snowman, wireframe a tiny house, or draw jaw-dropping landscapes, filled with dragons made of flame paint that stretch the length of your living room. But there’s a catch: while you can technically export the images to 3D software to play with further, there’s no seamless, Adobe-style workflow for VR content. And so no one seriously designs in VR.

The Gravity Sketch team wants to change that. Consisting of four ex-RCA students working out of the school’s new startup incubator, Gravity Sketch started by developing an impressive, though secretive, augmented reality appthat never shipped—the core technology of which became Gravity Sketch for tablets, an app that allows users to make quick 2D shapes and intuitively extrude them into 3D objects that can go straight to the 3D printer.

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