It’s fun to go to a fancy restaurant, and it’s also expensive. In the ideal case, somebody makes a great meal for you, and presents it with all sorts of wonderful service and flourish.
It can also fun to stay at home and cook a meal. You use pots and pans and utensils you have in your home kitchen, and whip up some food for you and your loved ones.
Recently I have come to think of 3D design software as falling along a similar continuum. There are a lot of tools out there for chefs. If you want to implement a computer game or a Hollywood movie, you can use the equivalent of a professional restaurant kitchen.
But what if you just want to make a nice meal at home for yourself and those you love? These days I am interested in creating 3D design software that you would use as more or less the equivalent of making a home cooked meal.
This is going to become progressively more important as extended reality goes from being something used only by professionals to something we will all take for granted in our daily lives. When that happens, people will want simple and easy to use tools.
We should not expect everyone to be able to use the tools of a master chef. But maybe everyone, when they want to, should be able to make a nice home cooked meal.