augmented reality home design app

Interactive Experience

The most important novelty AR technology brings to the home and interior design field is a highly interactive experience. Nothing can be compared to trying out 3D models in a real-world environment and evaluating them from the outer and inner sides.

A living room made in Live Home 3D

Areas Where AR Comes Helpful

How can Augmented Reality be used in home and interior design? Here is the list of interior design fields in which AR can be successfully used for enhancing the perception or evaluation quality.

Real-Estate Sales and Rental

AR models of real apartments and houses provided on real estate agency websites offer a futuristic approach to viewing the objects, minimizing the need to visit the actual houses in person. Realtors will sure love the advantages this technology brings them!

Interior Design

With the help of Augmented Reality, interior designers can immensely enhance the visual presentation of design projects for their clients. This way is much more vivid than screenshots or videos.

A stylish bathroom created in Live Home 3D

Furniture Manufacturing

Furniture, decor and accessory manufacturers now have an opportunity to showcase their objects inside real interiors by creating the AR models of their items. The ability to try them in one's own house is better than a thousand photos.

Interior Design Courses

AR (Augmented Reality) is a new trend to be studied at interior design courses where you can learn the new technological approaches in this field. Live Home 3D has a special education program that will help design courses to easily add this topic to their curriculum.

A girl with an ipad and a teacher at interior design courses

DIY Home Renovation

Any time one has a home renovation project, Augmented Reality can come in handy to find out if the color choice is right for them or if a desirable sofa fits the decor.

Helpful AR Home Design Apps

Here are some popular AR apps in the interior design field:

Live Home 3D – a home design app for making great interiors and houses of any level of complexity.
Houzz – Home Design & Remodel – the app for designing, building, re-modeling and decorating supporting AR technology.
IKEA Place – this app enables virtual placement of any of the furniture elements from the IKEA store.
Decor Matters: Design & Shop – a design and shopping tool for finding decorations for the house.
Amazon — Shopping made easy – you can purchase furniture and home decor and use the "View in your room" feature to evaluate whether it fits your interior.

Bits from Augmented Reality (AR) History

Published: April 2020