An Augmented Reality based approach towards Furniture Shopping

Abstract

In the furniture industry, all the companies have been involved in furniture designing, manufacturing, distributing, and selling decorative household equipment. But the furniture industry is one of the major industries facing challenges these days. The researcher has gone through the existing and current furniture selling applications. The researcher has done interviews, observations, and questionnaire distribution among furniture sellers and clients during the process of identifying the problem. So, purchasing the best suitable furniture item according to the customer expectation is the main challenge that people has faced during online purchases. That means, it can be challenging to visualize how furniture will look in our homes and work with the décor already in place. Researchers pointed out that augmented reality can quickly resolve this problem. The usage of augmented reality in industrial applications is still relatively limited in a world where technology rules. Augmented reality is a field of image processing that deals with the combination of the real-world and virtual environment. Researcher has used ARCore plugins through the furniture item visualization. Users will be able to see how the item will appear in their space in realtime. The researchers’ aim was to implement an application for smartphones to assist customers who purchase interior items directly online by allowing them to virtually see how their area will look after making the purchase. After implementation, researcher compared this developed system with the related current world applications and scenarios in the system evaluation process. Those system evaluations shows that the proposed system will be more supportable to make the current furniture industry more profitable.