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Amazon rolls out a new AR shopping feature for viewing multiple items at one time

Amazon is rolling out a new augmented reality shopping tool, Room Decorator, that volition allow you to see furniture and other dwelling house décor in your own space. While the retailer had experimented with AR tools in the past, what makes Room Decorator different is that it'southward capable of near adding multiple products to the room at the same fourth dimension. That ways you can visualize how a whole gear up of new products could fit together in your own space, not just a single particular.

The visitor had start launched a simpler version of AR shopping dorsum in 2017 with a characteristic called AR View in its Amazon iOS app, built using ARKit. But like many of the AR shopping tools to date, the focus with AR View was to let consumers to visualize adding an item to their existing room — like a new chair or lamp or vase, for example — to come across how the production went with their existing décor.

The Room Decorator experience takes things much further, equally not merely tin you view multiple products together, you tin can as well use the feature when yous're away from home by saving the AR snapshots of your room for later access.

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The feature is available beyond thousands of furniture products available on Amazon, including those offered both by Amazon and some of its third-party sellers. When a consumer happens upon one of these items, they'll click the "View in Your Room" push button to get started. This push will appear nether the eligible piece of furniture products in the Amazon shopping app for iOS and desktop spider web browsers.

Within the AR experience, consumers will exist presented with suggestions of complementary products to the one they were showtime viewing. As shoppers browse these recommendations, they tin add together the other products to their same room and rearrange them to become a better wait.

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The products in the AR view are shown both in scale and in loftier-definition, Amazon says, so at that place's less defoliation nearly how the item looks in real life. If customers are not ready to brand a decision, they can tap "Relieve Room" on iOS, which and so saves a snapshot of their room in a new section under their Amazon account ("Your Rooms"). They'll also exist emailed a link to the saved room for like shooting fish in a barrel access.

If the customer is prepare to buy, the items in Room Decorator tin can be added to a shopping cart from within the AR experience directly.

Amazon told TechCrunch the new experience has been under development for more than a twelvemonth and leverages Apple tree's ARKit for some of its AR engineering science integrations. The retailer says information technology institute customers wanted to visualize products in their dwelling house, even when they weren't at dwelling house or in the room, which is why it added the ability to continue to view and arrange products in the saved photos.

This role of the feel looks similar to Amazon'south existing "Showroom" feature on the web, where yous tin design a room using a visual tool. Amazon says the new AR endeavour was built by the visual search team, in collaboration with the piece of furniture team who built Exhibit.

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"Amazon is always exploring new means to create experiences that please our customers. With the add-on of Room Decorator tools, Amazon enhances its augmented reality feature to give customers an fifty-fifty more immersive shopping experience from the comfort of their own abode, or on the go," an Amazon spokesperson said about the new feature.

"With access to the inspiring furniture styles bachelor on Amazon, customers can do more than just imagine their dream rooms — they tin visualize them to make more than informed shopping decisions," they added.

Amazon had tested AR features earlier the launch of AR View in 2017. It once tried out "shoppable stickers" that used AR to place bones stickers of products in your space as sort of an early iteration on this concept of being able to run across multiple products at once. Just, as stickers, the items had no depth, and at that place was very lilliputian you lot could practise with them in terms of truly visualizing how they would look in your own home.

The new Room Decorator feature is launching today beyond 50% of the Amazon iOS mobile app install base in the U.S. Over the side by side few weeks, the feature will curl out to 100% of U.Due south. shoppers on iOS, the company says.