Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Virtual Reality (VR) has so much potential when it comes to communicating architecture and conveying the beauty of your designs in an immersive, jaw-dropping format.

In this video above, we show an easy, step-by-step method to create a VR walkthrough of a residential home design using SketchUp, Lumion and Sketchfab, a 3D model sharing website. With the addition of a VR headset, you can immerse yourself and others into the center of your design and heighten the feeling of space and dimension.

For a little more information, you can read the blog post about this tutorial here: lumion.com/blog/creating-vr-walkthroughs-of-architectural-design-pt-1-lumion-sketchfab.html

If you would like to jump to a specific part of this tutorial, you can click on the timestamps below:

- Upload your CAD model into Sketchfab (3:16)
- Make preliminary adjustments to your model in the Sketchfab 3D editor (3:50)
- Test the model in your VR headset (5:50)
- Add materials and furniture in SketchUp (6:52)
- Make a second round of adjustments (7:55)
- Improve the lighting for VR with lightmapping (8:05)
- Improve the 3D model for better detail and quality (10:30)
- Process the version of the house with materials and furniture (11:52)
- Change the background image with Lumion (13:08)

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