We have had a good experience with The Wild.
What do you like best?
For us, it is helpful to be able to inhabit the digital spaces, especially now that we are primarily working remotely. The AR component offers functionalities that we cannot get from Enscape or other rendering engines. Digital commenting, markups and real-time changes are even more important now that we are remote. I like that you can have multiple people inhabiting a space with varying skill levels - not everyone needs to be a confident operator with a VR headset. Since we do so much client-facing work, it's just not realistic to expect that they all will have the same comfort levels or tech-savvy that we will.
What do you dislike?
Having never used AR before, there is a bit of a learning curve and I feel like things aren't super intuitive for me. With that said, it seems like I will get the hang of it over time, but perhaps there could be more guiding instructions for beginner users? I also wish that you could see who is on your team - before I was made a Team Admin I was not able to find the list of members in the desktop app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Wild offers capabilities beyond that of Enscape and rendering engines, because you have the added layer of virtual collaboration and markups.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
As mentioned above, it helps us inhabit digital spaces. This is helpful because many clients don't have drawing literacy - they haven't spent years looking at floor plans and therefore don't totally understand what they are signing off on. For us, we are more confident in feedback when we know the client has been "inside" the space and really understood it from an experiential perspective. In addition, being able to add a markup or comment in real-time is great because it feels natural - with Enscape or other rendering platforms it always feels a little clumsy trying to document feedback and bring it back to the model.
