Takaki Ohoka, Bismark Kweku Asiedu Asante, and Hiroki Imamura, Soka University, Japan

In the interior and exterior industry, professionals goes through a painstaking tasks to plan and create functional and aesthetically pleasing indoor and outdoor spaces by selecting materials, colors, finishes, furnitures, and landscaping elements to achieve a harmonious and appealing environment for occupants and visitors. Recently, technological advancements has provided simulation environmemts using Virtual Reality (VR) or Augment Reality (AR) to easily perform these tasks. However the challenge of seamlessly switching between interior and exterior environments while simulating in multi user platforms is still a challenge. This is as a result of each of the spaces are simulated differently in VR space. To address this challenge, our research focus on developing a seamless simulation system for interior and exterior design in a VR space. Our system demonstrate that users can easily switch between interior and exteriors designs in the VR spaces in the multi user platforms as well.

Virtual Reality, interior design, exterior design, seamless simulations. 3D modelling, Data Visualization