Home Studio: A Mixed Reality Staging Tool for Interior Design

BSTRACTHome design services employ virtual real estate staging to visually convey proposals to prospective customers, instilling confidence in property owners on how spaces will look once they are furnished. However, creating room-scale visualizations requires days of expert labor to composite products on images provided by the customer. Advances in 3D capture now let users scan their spaces with a smartphone in a matter of minutes, enabling scale-accurate mixed reality experiences that can be leveraged to lower the skill bar and time required to produce visualizations of furniture in the user’s context. We present Home Studio, a web-based tool that lets designers stage any Matterport scan and generate photorealistic renders of products in the user’s context. Our tool enables a drag and drop experience that reconstructs the perspective view of the Matterport scene in a remote service, employing a rendering engine to produce a photorealistic composite.