This ETNews article reports GamiTech will commercialize VR display house service next month, utilizing special cylindrical screen and multi projector. From the article: "A new technology is developed to replace display houses with cutting-edge virtual reality set. It can save resources for building and decorating such houses and cause no pollution from waste materials, attracting much attention from construction industry.
GamiTech (CEO: Kim Sang-geun) announced on Mar 10th that it would commercialize VR display house next month utilizing special cylindrical screen and multi projector. Basic principle is to reflect three dimensions of buildings on cylindrical screen which can cover all vision angles of human beings, and provide virtual reality experiences. Visitors standing before screen can feel they are actually walking inside a house. They can have vivid experience without wearing special glasses, as the definition is 4 times higher than HD. GamiTech has been negotiating with 4 to 5 large construction companies on building VR display hose, and said it would release VR display house for commercial buildings next month at earliest.
Display houses cost 1.5 to 2 billion KRW on average and the problem is they should be destroyed right after selling is over, which has been blamed for causing environmental pollution.
As the government regulates opening display house to confirmed to-be-residents, not general consumers, to control speculation, some constructors do not build display houses at all. There existed a risk that consumers should depend on 3D images on the web before buying apartment or commercial buildings for hundreds of millions of KRWs. New VR display house will be of much help in overcoming structural problems of construction market. CEO Kim of GamiTech said, “VR display house lets visitors feel real space which is quite similar to actual display house. They will be able to easily look around new apartments in Busan or Newyork, while just staying in Seoul.”"