Amazon sells thousands of home furnishings, including couches, carpets,
chairs and tables. Finding out which ones are suitable for your living
room can be a daunting task.
But this week Amazon quietly rolled
out Amazon Showroom, a tool that lets you place furniture in a virtual
living room, making online furniture shopping more visual.With Amazon
Showroom, you can swap out different pieces of furniture to see how they
look in a room or as a set. There's not too much freedom in customizing
the showroom itself -- you can change the color of the walls and floor,
but you can't pick different rooms or arrange where the furniture goes.
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Still,
it lets you visualize thousands of pieces of furniture and represents
each one to scale.Previously, Amazon has used augmented reality to help
shoppers virtually place objects in their homes. Other retailers (like
Ikea and Wayfair) have also used AR apps to add an extra dimension to
online furniture shopping.
Amazon Showroom is a new way for
customers to visualize their home furnishing purchases when shopping
online. Amazon Showroom presents customers with a virtual living room,
where they can customize the décor and furniture selection providing the
ability to visually compare to scale representations of furniture items
together in a room to determine how an item will fit with the style of a
room and work with other complementary pieces. The result is a
photorealistic rendering of a room that answers the question: 'How will
this all look together?' It is currently being tested and in the Amazon
App for home furnishings for the living room.
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