Table of Contents for What is a digital twin:
- What is a Digital Twin?
- In which industries are digital twins used?
- What are digital twins used for?
- Benefits of digital twins in the home & living industry
- Digital Twins by Danthree Studio
- What types of digital twins are there?
- Technologies Behind Digital Twins
- Conclusion
- FAQ
What is a digital twin?
A 3D digital twin (also known as a digital doppelganger or digital avatar) is a digital representation of a physical object - in other words, a 1:1 replica. With the help of modern technologies, digital images of buildings, rooms, people, and objects can be created that are almost indistinguishable from real photos.
Digital twins are used in many industries such as architecture, construction, for product visualizations in e-commerce, and in the furniture industry. They can both facilitate product development and manifacturing and improve visual marketing.
To create digital visualizations, you need the appropriate expertise and good 3D software. However, there is also the option of having virtual twins created by a 3D agency. We from Danthree Studio can take over the 3D visualization for furniture, home & living products for you. Contact us for our digital twin solutions!
In which industries are digital twins used?
Digital avatars can clearly represent complex systems and complicated processes, as well as visualize products in an appealing way. For this reason, they are frequently used in the following areas:
- Furniture and furnishing industry: In the furniture and furnishing industry, product images in 3D are perfect for marketing. The visualizations realistically reflect furniture and interior design and encourage customers to buy - whether it's entire room visualizations or just small objects like children's toy visualizations. Interactive 360-degree and augmented reality visualizations have proven to be particularly effective.
- Mechanical engineering: Engineers also use digital avatars to visualize complex systems in an understandable way. Examples for digital twins in this field are visualizations are for aircraft or vehicle construction, but of course digital copys of products can also be created for simpler devices such as washing machines.
- Construction & architecture: The construction industry also benefits from the use of digital doppelgangers. Architects use 3D visualizations to realistically depict and check buildings before construction to ensure safe construction. Digital visualizations can also simplify urban planning.
- Healthcare: Digital twins can also help to analyze clinical pictures or visualize processes in the body.
- E-Commerce: Virtual twins realistically show what a product will ultimately look like. That's why they are often used for product marketing in e-commerce.
Our CGI agency Danthree Studio specializes in the creation of digital twins in the furniture and home & living industry. Feel free to contact us for a visualization of your furniture or interiors!
What are digital twins used for?
1. Presentation & Design
Digital twins can present furniture in a virtual 3D environment, so viewers can see how the piece of furniture looks in a particular room. If you create clipping renderings, you can easily insert the pieces of furniture into different environments.
2. Virtual Room Design
Did you know that you can even design and furnish living spaces virtually with digital doppelgangers? With augmented reality renderings, customers can experience what a piece of furniture would look like in their own home. Special AR apps are used for this. They work like this: The customer points their smartphone camera at an environment in which the product is superimposed on their phone.
3. Product Development And Optimization
Last but not least, digital twins can also be used for product development and optimization. Developers and designers can visualize and improve products in this way without having to create physical products.
Digital twin visualized without texture
Digital twin visualized with texture
Benefits of digital twins in the home & living industry
Digital twins in 3D offer a lot of benefits for the home & living industry:
- Time and Cost Savings: Virtual twins don't require physical prototypes, and production changes for new variations can be quickly implemented. This means that digital photoshoots can even be more efficient than traditional photoshoots of your products.
- Improve customer loyalty and customer satisfaction: Customers can use the digital twins to see what the furniture or home & living products will look like before they buy them. This way, you can easily gain their trust and avoid disappointment (and returns) later on.
- Sustainability: Not as many physical products are needed to create digital twins as for traditional photo shoots. This promotes sustainable production in the interior design industry.
- Increasing product quality: Furniture manufacturers also use digital twins to improve the quality of their products. A realistic 3D visualization makes it easier for them to identify and correct weak points.
Digital Twins by Danthree Studio
Our digital twin studio Danthree Studio specializes in the creation of 3D visualizations for furniture, home accessories, and interior design projects. With our expert team of designers, 3D artists, and software developers, we create high-quality digital 3D models that realistically depict real products and also have digitized surfaces with textures and digital materials .
Danthree Studio offers various types of digital twins, such as:
- Digital twin images: Our 3D artists create images with virtual twins of furniture and interiors to take your marketing with CGI to the next level. You are welcome to look at our CGI visualizations of bathrooms or our 3D kitchen renderings as examples.
- AR and VR applications: Augmented reality and virtual reality features are hot in the home & living sector as well. These features allow customers to view objects in a virtual environment (e.g. in the metaverse) or see how furniture would look in the real world (e.g. in their own home).
- 3D Animations: We also provide 3D animations and moving images for furniture and home accessories.
Creation of Digital Twins as 3D Model - Danthree Studio
What types of digital twins are there?
When talking about digital twins, a distinction is usually made between four different types:
- Component or Part Twins: With this twin, only a part of an object or system is digitized, and not the entire object.
- Asset twins: Asset twins consist of at least two components. This allows the interaction between two or more parts in a system to be visualized.
- Unit or System Twins: At this level, an entire system is digitized, which includes two or more asset twins.
- Process Twins: Lastly, complex process twins can also be created to show how different systems work together.
Digital twin technology
Digital Twin Modeling And Rendering
To create digital twins, 3D models must first be created. To realistically depict furniture and home accessories, you can then digitize the surfaces of the virtual model and add details such as textures, shading, and colors. Finally, the 3D model needs to be rendered. You can use 3D software for the furniture visualization process.
Augmented Reality (AR) And Virtual Reality (VR)
With the help of AR and VR technologies, customers can experience digital representations of furniture and home accessories within their own four walls. Well, almost... Of course, the whole thing takes place virtually, but customers can see what a piece of furniture would look like in their home in order to make the right purchase decision.
Conclusion on digital twins in the furniture, home & living industry
Digital twins look extremely realistic and offer customers an interactive experience with the products - even before they make a purchase. This is particularly effective for the furniture and home & living industry, as the purchase decision for large and expensive products, such as interiors or furniture, takes longer than if the customer just grabs a new shirt at H&M.
However, with digital doppelgangers of your furniture and home accessories, you can easily accelerate this purchase decision. Your customers are presented with a realistic image of your products, which not only increases their trust in your brand but also makes them more willing to buy.
Would you also like to improve your visual marketing with 3D renderings? Then we at Danthree Studio can help you! We specialize in creating digital visualizations in the furniture industry and can also take on complex visualizations such as augmented reality animations and three-dimensional product videos for you!
To find out more about our digital twin solutions and to receive a free initial consultation, please feel free to contact us!
