Watch us build a pergola live
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This is a live site visit with a pergola dealer, recorded from start to end on their iPad. The salesperson walks around the house for about two minutes, scanning as they go. The iPad builds the 3D scene on the device in a few minutes, and the site then opens in the studio as a 3D scene you can edit, not a flat photo.
In the studio a bioclimatic pergola goes onto the terrace. Its size, colours, louvre angle and side screens change in place, and the sun moves through the day to show where the shade falls at each hour. Then the design is viewed in AR, standing on the terrace itself. Last, a quote link and a PDF go to the customer.
The scan is a building site, with gravel and pipes lying around, not a finished garden. It is still accurate enough to design against, and the customer sees their own house instead of a catalogue photo. For the dealer, that is the difference between describing a pergola and showing it.
