Pinterest to Launch Augmented Reality Previews for Furniture

Pinterest will launch a brand new Try On for Home Decor function to its cellular app that permits you to view furnishings in your house through augmented actuality (AR).

The goal of the function is to see what numerous varieties of residence decor will appear to be in your house earlier than buying them. Pinterest is working alongside American retailers like West Elm and Wayfair to make this AR preview functionality doable.

The function makes use of Pinterest Lens, a know-how that usually scans objects and exhibits you gadgets with related kinds and designs on the app. For this new function, you will see that a button on choose product listings that shows the AR preview.

From there, you possibly can drop the AR furnishings down in your house and think about it from totally different angles to see the way it will look in your room. According to Pinterest, over 80,000 items of furnishings may have a preview through “shoppable Pins” at launch, so not each single merchandise on the platform may have this functionality.

Try On for Home Decor is presently making its manner to customers within the United States on iOS and Android, with plans to increase this function globally. It’s additionally unknown if Pinterest has plans to increase Try On to different classes on the platform.

This is not the primary time Pinterest has dabbled in augmented actuality. In early 2020, the platform applied Try On for Beauty, which lets individuals check out totally different sorts of make-up by way of the identical augmented actuality tech.