Online home furnishing provider HomeLane.com has done something that we’ve all secretly wished for. The interior designers and their lookbooks and models might fall flat on their face. The virtual reality-based device Kaleido is here.
Kaleido uses Google Cardboard to provide an immersive experience. Wear these glasses and walk into a virtual world where choosing between colours and finishes, countertops and flooring options, appliances and accessories is as easy as pie.
The company describes it as “having the entire showroom at your beck and call.” This certainly will give the buyers the discretion to mix and match options and envision multiple possibilities for kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms.
The inability of customers to exactly forecast how the final setup will look like was a major pain point for customer when searching for furnishing options and the company is using technology to address that concern. “We are using technology to completely revolutionise how people furnish their dream homes and the launch of HomeLane.com. Kaleido is a major milestone in this direction,” said Srikanth Iyer, CEO and co-founder of HomeLane.com at the launch of the product last week.
The showroom in a box philosophy has been adopted by the company to bridge the gap between imagination and reality. Interestingly, HomeLane.com is the first home furnishing company in India to offer guaranteed installation in six weeks from order date, along with providing durable furnishing made of quality materials that come with a five-year warranty.
The company acknowledges the fact that technology works hand in hand with effective on-ground services. From colours to panels to dimensions, dream your home and they promise to fulfill it.
So, make notes, jot down ideas and daydreams, use illustration, be free from the restrictions of code diagrams and make digital napkin sketches to navigate through your project.