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Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

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Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#11

It's a cool idea but seems like it will be difficult to get paying customers at $40 a pop. The value is there, but people are not used to paying this way. I wonder if instead revenue could be extracted from purchases made based on the renderings, or via other partnerships.

Yeah, seems like bringing the showroom into your house would be a great way to sell furniture and accessories. Make this a platform for retailers and manufacturers!

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#12
post #8

The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…

Just getting a "floor plan" or empty room is much easier. But yes, it's an active area of research in Computer Vision / Graphics. Later on in the article it says "90% automated" and that things are checked. That'll be good enough to make this cost feasible.

Disclaimer: I'm related to one of the founders (but I don't work there).

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#13

It's a cool idea but seems like it will be difficult to get paying customers at $40 a pop. The value is there, but people are not used to paying this way. I wonder if instead revenue could be extracted from purchases made based on the renderings, or via other partnerships.

Yeah, seems like bringing the showroom into your house would be a great way to sell furniture and accessories. Make this a platform for retailers and manufacturers!

Watch this space ;)

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#15
post #8

The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…

TC misquoted.. Rendering is the easy part - 3D reconstruction is the hard part :-)

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#16
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, seems like bringing the showroom into your house would be a great way to sell furniture and accessories. Make this a platform for retailers and manufacturers!

Watch this space ;)

Ping me as soon as it's near. If I'm a maker of design objects for the home, I want to license the 3D capture/rendering engine.

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#17
post #8

The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…

TC misquoted.. Rendering is the easy part - 3D reconstruction is the hard part :-)

+1 :)

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#18
post #12
post #8

The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…

Just getting a "floor plan" or empty room is much easier. But yes, it's an active area of research in Computer Vision / Graphics. Later on in the article it says "90% automated" and that things are checked. That'll be good enough to make this cost feasible. Disclaimer: I'm related to one of the founders (but I don't work there).

Yea that makes more sense. Pretty cool use of the current state of the tech.

Re: Modsy – Home design using 3D rendering

#20
post #8

The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz about their likes and dislikes. This takes about 5 minutes and basically involves clicking on photos. Then Modsy takes over. About 48 hours later, the results are delivered. Modsy us…

How are we sure it's actually automated? I feel like they've just hired some kid to sit on autocad and recreate rooms based on the couple of pictures someone has taken.
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