If you’re interested in tech and architecture, you’ve probably played The Sims.

It was originally designed as a virtual architecture and design simulator, where the characters were people who came to evaluate the property you’d built and furnished.

It wound up taking on a life of its own as a fully functional game series, but it was massively innovative for the time – especially since the first installment was created before we have the virtual reality technology we have today.Now, we’re able to fully actualize what those games initially set out to do.

Apps obviously offer more limited VR design capabilities due to space constraints (who has 15 free gigs on their phone’s internal storage?

), but computers have cut almost all of the red tape.While in the past, things like blueprints and even physical miniature models of homes were the closest that designers could come to replicating a vision and bringing it to life, the added layer of VR allows for more than just visualization.

It can start as basic as the placement of the windows and the square footage of rooms without incorporating complicated design elements.