Happy Easter!

What a first quarter!

I apologize for the radio silence; it has been a busy first few months of 2022.

2022 started with my move across the country. If you didn't know, I lived and worked in Breezy Point, MN, which is several hours north of the twin cities (Minneapolis and St Paul). I am from Chicago, born and raise, and moved to Breezy Point, MN, 20 years ago. We left MN minus 35 degrees and minus 50 with the wind chill. After a seven-day migration, we arrived in San Diego, California, and it was in the '70s and sunny. Actually, after being here for four-month, the weather is is still '70s and sunny. It took us a week because we had a 26' U-Haul, which towed my vehicle, and my wife pulled our 26' RV. That alone was a challenge, but the challenge was the snow, which slowed us down most of the way.

We arrived in San Diego and stayed in an RV resort for the first month, rather fun. I had a 17" Alienware i9 waiting for me, so I could keep working while at the RV resort. That went so well; it is still my daily driver. So we stayed in the RV resort to look for an apartment or house to rent. We found a place we liked and were in a month later.

San Diego is fantastic. The weather is incredible, but that sun tax hurts. I won't go too far into that, but let me tell you, it is expensive to live here. We moved here because my wife, who is in the medical field, was hired to start a service in the area for a significant national healthcare company, and it made sense.

So I try to have a balanced life and balancing family, work, and self is complex. For self-care, everything else works if I take of myself; I hike. Hiking in San Diego is fantastic, and I feel blessed to access the trails here. Below I'll post some of my recent hikes. Tomorrow is Potato Chip Rock via Mt. Woodson Trail.

Enough about me. I apologize, but I have received so many emails asking how things are going since I haven't written lately.

The architectural visualization industry, as a whole, is healthy. Like architecture and construction, our industry is closely tied to the economy. If people are building, architects are designing, and developers are building.

By 2025, the architectural visualization demand is expected to reach $5.72 billion. Compared to 2016, that's a nearly 500% increase, which is more than incredible. However, it only shows how crucial architectural visualization has become in the world today.

The trend is real-time, which isn't new to the industry but is becoming mainstream. For example, Enscape is a commercial real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin. It is mainly used in the architecture, engineering, and construction fields. My rendering software of choice, Chaos Groups V-Ray, have merged, which is exciting. As a result, Enscape and Chaos join as equal partners to become one company. But of course, the technology isn't new, but it will help bring the technology to the masses. Rendering a high-resolution animation is one thing, but having it interactive and deliverable to the average person is another. The cost of the hardware to even view a high-resolution real-time animation is usually cost-prohibitive, not to mention the cost to create them. So I hope that architectural visualization will become much more immersive over the next couple of years.

I would love to hear your thoughts on real-time visualizations. Do you have kids or grandkids? Have you seen how real their games look? You might think, what is the difference between a game and architectural visualization? Well, a good game takes a team years and costs millions. They recover their investment with a nice profit, 99 cents at a time. Your house, apartment, or building, is unique and one of a kind. Would you like to see your home, apartment, or building be more immersive? How about your client, or potential client, walking through your design, opening and closing doors and cabinets? How about picking on something and changing the material? Even more immersive, picking a fixture and ordering it in real-time?

I am excited, are you?

Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Iron Mountain Hike
Balboa Park Urban Hike
T ecolote Canyon Trail Hike

As usual, you can see some of my latest work on my blog, which I keep fresh, so check often.

Thank you for being awesome,
Bobby Parker
www.Bobby-Parker.com