From Floor Plans to Virtual Reality

Creating realistic VR environments is a tedious task. For many types of applications, these environments must respect certain constraints or correspond as faithfully as possible to a real place. Floor plans are a simple and abundant format that humans can read and edit. As such, they are a good basis to create VR environments that match real buildings. We propose a method to convert floor plans to VR environments with minimal human intervention. Leveraging traditional computer vision, machine learning and 3D engines, our method is efficient but remains flexible and fast, and creates simple yet realistic environments that can be used for various VR applications. We demonstrate results for our specific use case for Belgian Defence's tactical intervention teams.