- The Apple Park Visitor Center.
I'm Chris, this is Topher.
This is Yellow Productions.
We do travel guides that are fun, informative, entertaining.
And in this video, we're gonna be showing you
inside that building.
It's the Apple Park Visitor Center.
Apple Park, it's the spaceship in Cupertino.
That gate down there, that's the main gate to the spaceship,
Apple's new circular office building.
Fortunately they don't let you inside of that
if you're just nobodies like us.
But they've built this whole building right here
to show off that building.
It has a like 3D experience, augmented reality,
there's an observation deck
and they've got special merchandise.
And they've got an Apple Cafe.
Show you inside.
If you come to Cupertino and you love Apple
you should definitely check this place out.
Oh, did I mention it's free?
It is free.
F, R, E, E, free.
Parking's free too, good deal.
First things first, yes in the middle of this visitor center
there is an Apple store, and yes you can buy all
of your favorite Apple merchandise like Iphones, Ipads,
MacBooks, but the first thing that's unique about this Apple
store is the training environment in the middle.
They do different training events and the day I was there
this guy was giving a training event on how to use
Apple Keynote to make application prototypes.
- And so now I've incorporated an animation so when I tap on
the talk words kinda pops out like that into the next slide.
- In addition to the regular Apple store merchandise
they've got special merchandise that you can only buy here
including these T-shirts that say Apple Park and have the
icon of the Apple spaceship building on them.
You can also get shopping bags that have the Apple Park logo
on them or if you want some headgear you can get
some Apple baseball caps.
The Apple logo is very discreet on this,
just a little apple on the side.
If you're craving some caffeine or your stomach's a little
rumbly well you can get coffee and light snacks over in the
Apple Cafe.
If you're wondering where the menu is, well the menu's
actually on Ipads located right next to the cash register.
In the third room of the Apple park visitor center there is
this diorama of Apple park, but what's really cool about it,
it just looks silver, but take a look at this Ipad,
come closer.
This is the Apple Park Ipad and it is a augmented reality
experience so when you hold this across this thing
it actually shows you what it looks like with the trees.
It tells you that's the Ring building, and you can swipe
up to see what is inside the Ring building.
So you cursor there's this building right here.
What do you think that is? I don't know?
Now unfortunately we can't really go in to the whole complex
but we can click on the, it's the Fitness and Wellness
Center and we can swipe up on the roof to see inside that
Fitness and Wellness Center.
And look, you can actually see people working out inside the
center, and you can change day to night, it's interesting
that people still seem to be working out at night.
But when you look at like, daytime or nighttime it changes
to be night, it changes to be morning, and sunrise.
You can take a look here, at the different solar panels that
are on it.
So, it shows you how it collects the energy
on the solar panels there on top of the building.
And then, how it distributes that power to the different
buildings on the side.
And you can click this one to see the ventilation so, the
building's famous for having, it's a LEED building so just
uses airflow through the building to cool it.
So that's pretty cool.
So definitely if you're in Cupertino and you like Apple,
come check out this building particularly to experience the
Apple Park Ipad, probably one of the coolest uses of
augmented reality I've seen.
The final part of the visitor center if you head
up this staircase onto the roof is the observation deck.
From the observation deck you could dine out here,
you could bring some of your coffee or snacks from the cafe
up here.
On a nice day, would probably be a pretty nice place to sit.
But you come up here to get some up close and personal
views of the Apple spaceship.
This is as close as you and I are gonna get to it, not just
looking at that diorama downstairs.
But there behind those trees across that street you can see
that impressive building.
And just over here on the left that's the visitor center
that I was pointing out from the ground
where I started this video.
The Apple Park visitor center has really become a tourist
attraction so much that tour groups actually visit this
building, and this tour group was particularly cool because
they were wearing some yellow jackets.
Well hey if you enjoyed this video you might enjoy watching
some of my other videos.
You can click either one to watch, I won't say goodbye
because I'll see you in one of those videos.