During my recent visit to San Francisco Bay Area, I took a day tour to Santa Cruz and one the way one of my office colleagues showed curiosity about the new Apple Building called Apple Park. Interesting Cupertino was on our way to Santa Cruz and this office is in Cupertino only. We thought of taking a quick detour and thought of visiting the place where new Apple campus is located. Although we were not sure if we would be able to go inside or see it well but still it was worth to take the detour.
Our GPS guided us to Apple Visitor centre which is pretty close to the new Apple building which is circular and from visitor centre you only see 1% of it and that too covered with high trees. But the interesting part of that Apple has very well taken care of the curious souls in the visitor centre.
At the visitor centre, there is a huge model put on the ground floor. As you enter into the visitor centre, there are folks to help you there and they hand over iPads to you if needed. These iPads give you augmented reality experience as you move around with it and face towards the model. Apart from showing the augmented reality, you can also play with it and see further details of the places. There is a lot that you can do with it and experience this architecture marvel.
After spending some time around the model and experiencing the augmented reality of the space, we headed to the adjacent Apple store which is on the same floor. It was not as exciting as the roof from where one can see small part of the real building. Apart from that, there are folks on the deck who can tell you tails of the building construction and what kind of challenges workers faced. Also some stories around green landscapes around the building and how some of the big tress were moved (not cut).
It was a productive visit to Apple Park before heading towards Santa Cruz.
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