30 Sep 2024
How AI Is Transforming The Interior Design & Furnishing Industry
With the maturing of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new type of technology using a concept called “Spatial Computing” (SC) is beginning to revolutionize the way homes are being decorated.
What is SC?
In essence it is a technology that uses AI to blend the virtual and physical worlds. Imagine redecorating your home: you would first measure the interior to get precise data and a spatial map before visiting furniture stores. SC simplifies this process by using smartphone cameras and other available devices to achieve measurements with less than a centimetre of error, instantly creating scenes that mirror actual dimensions.
For physical spaces, including behind furniture, under sofas or around windows, SC provides near human accuracy in dimension calculation. It can also remove existing objects from a space and accurately reconstruct new furniture, reflecting both real dimensions and materials like wooden floors and leather sofas.
This allows the consumers to make changes and preview a transformed space before making any purchases. The consumer gets a real-life depiction of what the room would look like with their choice of design.
This type of technology is currently being widely used in manufacturing, retail, healthcare and the entertainment industry. It helps capture elements like furniture, floors and walls, integrating 3D semantic information to understand user needs and offer personalized design solutions.
The technology is being integrated with furniture manufacturers to create a one-stop shopping process. Previously, the home furnishing industry with an annual market of billions of dollars, has lacked a tool that could enable users to complete the entire process from space design to furniture selection through technology.
As consumer behaviour shifts with the rise of digitization, the frequency of online furniture purchases has gradually increased, compelling the home furnishing industry to shift to digital tools for inventory management, categorization and sales optimization.
In traditional interior design processes, it typically takes more than 3.5 hours to accurately measure a 100 square meter space, plus a number of days for design work. SC cuts the measurement, design and staging time to just minutes, allowing consumers to place orders immediately after confirming the design.
This technology not only addresses some of the home furnishings industry pain points, it also offers an improved shopping experience while reducing the risk of returns and exchanges.
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