With Amazon AR View on Android, See How That New Couch Will Look

Planning to buy some new effects for your home? Amazon's AR View, which launched on iOS in November, is now available on Android.

AR View lets you see how dissimilar items volition expect in your home before you buy them. So y'all don't take to go through the hassle of trying to return a piece of article of furniture you purchased online that doesn't quite work in your infinite. To come across AR View in action, check out the video below.

"Customers tin can overlay furniture, devices, lamps, and more than onto their existing living space and then move it and rotate information technology to get a full 360-caste peek in a live photographic camera view to make sure information technology fits their mode and aesthetic," Amazon said in a argument.

Amazon showtime introduced AR View in November as a characteristic inside its iOS shopping app. Now, AR View is launching on Android devices that support ARCore. To use the feature on your Android device, you'll first need to download the ARCore app from the Google Play shop. From there, fire up the Amazon app on your phone, tap the camera icon in the search bar, and printing "AR View" to try it out.

"Every product is sized and rendered so you know exactly how large it will be, and what it will look like," Amazon said.

Some fifteen,000 "top habitation furnishing products" – including options for your living room, bedroom, kitchen, and home office – are available via AR View, Amazon said. You can also access this feature correct on select product pages; expect for the link that says "See how this production fits in your room" below the production'due south prototype.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's adept on fitness and smart home products. Pedagogy yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength preparation machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart habitation devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to proper noun a few.