[makeitdouble]

Genuine question: does it really help ?

This is a real problem to solve, but the issue being in the physical world, it seems to me having rough prints of your photos* and temporarily sticking them at the candidate places would be a more effective solution.

The added advantage being to be able to look at those for longer time, at any moment of the day, and decide if after the fifth time you're already bored with that picture.

* Stiching might be needed depending on the size

[informationslob]

This would be more helpful with furniture. If companies started to upload 3d pictures of their products, it would be useful for an app like this.

[makeitdouble]

My reaction comes from using the IKEA and the Apple AR examples.

We tried, just to realize that at no point we're going to make a 3~4 figure decision based on dimensions yielded by the app. And it wasn't that helpful either to get a general feeling as we had to look at the phone all the time, colors and lighting aren't accurate either so it still feels off, in a uncanny valley way. Even with the iPad it's still looking at your living room through a tiny window.

We ended up drawing physical lines with ropes and whatever we had at hand, and sometimes putting empty boxes and stuff as placeholders to get a sense of how much space it actually feels it takes in the room.

One learning we got from that is that sometimes it looked really big, but we actually get used to the size within minutes.

I actually have higher hopes for VR to be better at this application.

[JCharante]

Amazon has this feature on at least their Android app. I've tested out the virtual shelf next to the already assembled shelff and it's a pretty good preview of it.

[chrischen]

The Houzz app does this.

[AceJohnny2]

Like Ikea does?

[mcjiggerlog]

Source: https://www.ikea.com/au/en/customer-service/mobile-apps/say-...