Metaio’s mobile AR technology shopping experiences.
How to fall in love even more with those awesome products you covet? Bring them home…via Augmented Reality. This weekend I wanted to try a couple of apps developed using to Metaio’s Unifeye Mobile SDK. Swiss furniture designers Atelier Pfister and uber cool Spanish porcelain creators Lladró decided to let mobile/tablet users try out their lines of products at home with nice user friendly apps. Two different approaches: Atelier Pfister’s app lets you adjust the furniture (modeled in low-res polygons but nicely rendered) to a background image or picture from your library or camera while Lladró’s app has ‘flat’ high-res images for the user to adjust the background image or pic taken to match the product’s perspective.
Atelier Pfister’s app just needs (or perhaps I missed it) a way to tell the real scale of the objects, something Lladro solved by placing an iPhone (ubiquitous object) next to their products, very helpful when adjusting the product’s image to the chosen background.
Atelier Pfister Iphone App Film from Atelier Pfister on Vimeo.
All in all I think this is a great way to window shop =), plus the ability to share your images with your design forward friend or family is quite interesting. A good experience to get acquainted with brands and their products.
