Ever Dreamed of a "Sims" Version of Your Own Home?

[dogapoyraz]

Hey Home Assistant Community,

I hope it’s okay to post this here. I’m an MIT researcher, and I’ve been tinkering with a personal project that’s kind of… well, a bit niche, maybe? But I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I was just wondering if anyone else shares this thought.

You know how in games like The Sims, you can see your entire house from a bird’s-eye view in 3D? I’ve been exploring the idea of automating how we could get that kind of 3D layout for our own actual homes. Like, what if you could essentially generate a model of your house just from some photos? My very early tests suggest it might be possible with around 10 pictures per room.

I’ve attached a couple of images – the scattered points are actually an early look at a 3D scan of my own house. The other picture is just a Sims house, to kind of illustrate what I mean by a “3D view.”

My hope would be to make this whole process fairly automated and, ideally, totally free. I’ve been thinking about how it could potentially integrate with things like Sweet Home 3D.

I guess I’m just putting it out there to see… does anyone else ever wish they had this kind of interactive 3D model of their own living space? Is this something that sounds even remotely interesting to you? Or is it just a weird thing I’m fixated on?

No pressure at all, just genuinely curious about your thoughts. If there’s a little bit of interest, it might encourage me to push this project further.

Thanks for humoring me!

P.S: I am new to the platform so if I break any community guidelines please let me know

[dogapoyraz]

What I have done with a house is something like this for your reference which I believe I can convert to first layout then the 3d version fairly automated

Unfortunately system won’t allow me to embed multiple media. But putting a link here for you to check if you would like to check how close I am.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u8EJiDuOldgisXm6Q50vBTBSs8p2s3zH?usp=sharing

This is just the high level points of interest in a house, the rest is just creating the conversion scripts, though it will take some effort on my end.

So any enthusiasm would actually motivate me to tackle it!

[chairstacker]

I’ve been thinking about creating a 3D view of my house to improve the WAF of my HA setup.
It would go a long way for somebody to actually make use of many more of the devices I actually implemented if they didn’t have to remember where they are, what they do, and where to find them on a dashboard (or multiple).

So far, I’ve held back doing it due to the rather large amount of work it would require.

Creating a 3D version from photos would be great, but I also have to admit that would never upload several photos per room to a website due to privacy concerns.