Application and practice of virtual reality technology in environmental art design ——Take space rend

Abstract: VR technology is widely applied across various domains, entering the era of electronic information, and is gradually being used in environmental and artistic design. Although not yet widespread, it has already broken traditional design thinking and has a broad future. As people's lives improve, so do the demands for environmental design. Traditional interior design has many problems, such as difficulty in making changes, low efficiency, high costs, and poor presentation. Therefore, designers are applying VR technology to interior design, changing traditional methods, presenting vivid and realistic effects, and enhancing the user experience.

Key words: Virtual reality technology; Environmental art design; Interior design

Preface

Information technology revolutionizes life and enhances production efficiency. Virtual reality technology, based on this, promotes the interior design industry in our country. Traditional interior decoration design relies on drawings, which lack a three-dimensional feel, making it difficult to achieve the desired effect and tedious to modify. After the application of virtual reality technology, design becomes more intuitive, client feedback is clear, and efficiency is improved. Applying virtual reality technology to interior design not only allows designers to easily carry out design work but also enables clients to view design models more intuitively, expressing their needs better, faster, and more clearly.

I.Introduction to Virtual Reality Technology and Its Advantages

1. Introduction to Virtual Reality Technology

Virtual reality technology, or VR technology, is a computer simulation system capable of creating and experiencing a virtual world. It is a new technology that has emerged after the application and development of traditional hand-drawn drawings, CAD, SU, and other software technologies. This technology originated in the 1980s as a productof the development of the times.

Virtual reality technology commonly uses head-mounted displays or multi-projector environments, combined with physical props, to generate realistic images and sounds, simulating a user's virtual presence. Compared to 2D CAD and 3D renderings, it can intuitively display interior design effects, solve spatial limitations, lack of detail, and difficulty in making changes, becoming one of the popular design methods.

2. The Advantages of Virtual Reality Technology in Interior Design

VR technology makes it convenient to construct interior models, capable of building a one-to-one scale model and simulating various factors, helping to communicate and check the feasibility of plans, and making timely modifications. Moreover, VR makes design content more intuitive, allowing clients to easily understand and experience fully, facilitating immediate feedback and adjustments. By using virtual reality technology to construct interior models, designers can build models of the same size as real houses in unlimited space. The design content becomes more intuitive.

II. Application Approaches of Virtual Reality Technology

In today's interior decoration design, the application approaches of virtual reality technology mainly include the following aspects:

1. Application in the rendering of interior effects

Virtual reality technology uses 3DSMAX software for interior effect rendering, through modeling, lighting processing, and adding VR effects, to restore the real decoration scene and enhance customer experience. In interior decoration design, virtual reality technology greatly improves the design effect, bringing a real three-dimensional visual experience. It can simulate indoor objects, the impact of climate and lighting, and material effects. VR technology reduces the cost of creating roaming animation scenes, improves efficiency, achieves multi-view experience, clearly presents decoration details, assists user feedback, and meets personalized needs.

2. Application in actual scenes

Traditional methods use flat drawings and videos to show interior effects, while virtual reality technology can fully restore the scene and enhance customer interaction experience. By shooting flat effect drawings and processing them through software, spherical views are formed, achieving the three-dimensional effect of flat drawings. In decoration design, designers can shoot real scenes, process the space, add elements, and improve efficiency.

3. Application in hidden scenes

It is not difficult to find that the hidden works of interiors are a challenge in traditional decoration design. Virtual reality technology can comprehensively summarize the hidden parts of interiors, helping designers with their design. For example, widely distributed pipelines such as water pipes and electrical wires need careful arrangement in kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms. Effectively improving the quality of hidden scene decoration design.

In conclusion, as a new technology, virtual reality technology has a very good development prospect in the application of the interior industry. With the birth and continuous development of Unreal Engine 5 technology, the combination of the two can better display the final design effect. Applying virtual reality technology to interior decoration design can effectively improve the efficiency and effect of decoration design and also helps to meet the personalized needs of customers, enhancing the satisfaction of decoration design. It is believed that in the not-too-distant future, virtual reality technology will surely be a sharp weapon in the interior design industry, driving the development of the industry.

庞衍闯（1999.09），男，汉族，籍贯：山东省菏泽市，齐鲁工业大学（山东省科学院）艺术设计学院，22级在读研究生，硕士学位，专业：艺术设计，研究方向：环境设计