View in my room augmented reality for your furniture website

On a phone, the shopper opens the product page and taps "view in my room". The camera opens. They point it at the floor where the piece would go, and the piece appears there. They can slide it against the wall, turn it and walk around it. They see whether it clears the door, the window and the furniture they already own.

On a laptop, the page shows a QR code in place of the button. The shopper scans it with a phone and carries on from there. No account, sign-up or app is involved at any point.

This is what augmented reality furniture placement means in practice: one piece, at its true size, in the room it is meant for. Some sites label the button "AR view" or "see it in your room". The wording on your site is yours to choose.

Start with the pieces that are returned or asked about most, and add more once you can see how shoppers use the feature. AR adds little for small accessories that fit anywhere, and for products sold mainly on feel, such as mattresses and cushions.

It is most useful where size and fit decide the sale. These are the usual pieces.

• Sofas, sectionals and recliners
• Beds and wardrobes
• Dining tables and chairs
• Desks, shelving and storage
• Rugs, mirrors, wall art and lighting
• Outdoor furniture

If you already have 3D models from your factory or from earlier renders, send them. We can usually use them as the base.

Every piece is modelled accurately before it goes into AR, because a shopper will measure their room against it. This is what we ask for.

• The dimensions of each piece: width, depth, height and seat height
• Factory drawings or CAD, if they exist
• Photographs of each piece from all four sides and from above
• Close-up photographs or swatches of each fabric, wood and metal finish
• For modular pieces, the units and the configurations you sell
• The website platform your store runs on

The model we build for AR is also the model for your catalogue images. The detailed version is rendered as cut-outs on white and placed in room sets. The light version goes into AR. A furniture brand that orders both pays for the modelling once.

See furniture rendering for the images. If your site also needs the piece to turn in the browser, the AR model already does that on the product page.

We quote per model, which for furniture means per piece. One piece is one 3D model, delivered as a GLB file for Android and the web and a USDZ file for iPhone. The charge for a piece depends on its shape, its upholstery and detailing, and the reference you can supply. A plain console table is much less work than a tufted sofa.

Each extra fabric or finish adds a smaller piece of work to the first model. A range that shares frames, legs or fabrics costs less per piece than unrelated products, because the shared parts are built once. The set-up of the viewer and the button on your site is quoted once per project.

There is no app to build, so there is no app development cost. Tell us the number of pieces and variants, and we send a quote with a schedule.