Week 7 Homework

The Screenshot below is the AR feature of the application Houzz using a Motorola e5, Android 8.0.0 software.

For this assessment, I was going to download the IKEA Place app, however, my 200 dollar phone was not compatible with the application so I downloaded Houzz instead, since it worked on my phone.

In the app, it has a catalog of furniture that you can buy off of the Houzz’s store. This app store as a unique feature that is getting popular among some retail furniture app stores. Along with the 1000s of home fixtures around 10 percent of the items had the AR item that you could use your phone’s camera in order to place 3d models of the item into the real world space. You can move the back in order to shrink it into the appropriate size and rotate it along its Y-axis in order to fit into the room to your heart’s contents.

You are also adding to add more 3D models of different kinds of furniture or have the same kind in order to compare the in the same room. Instead of going to the store, buying the future, building it and finding out that you don't like it. You could simply use your phone's camera to see how it would look.

This AR applications like this could be effectively used in the future. For one this is really great for artists and designers. Being able to create a 3D object can be easy to make and cost-efficient as well. The models can then be kept in an archive in order to be easily accessed for later uses.

This can also be used in the car industry. The designer has to use tons of clay in order to make a life-size mold of the new model of a car. This is so they can see how will look like in real life and use more or less clay in order to fix anything that the company doesn't like before they decide on the final model. Using an AR application would be that it would take less time and manpower in order to make these life-size models. Making changes will be easier than fixing a large clay sculpture. You could also use this to compare old models with the new redesign, something you can not do with clay.

This can as well be used in the fashion industry. Catwalks are used in order to see how the clothing will look on a real person. By using an AR application like with the furniture. You can see how the dress/suit could look like in a room. Unlike with the catwalk, you can get close-ups on certain parts of the clothing from different angles. There could as be a feature where you can put in your body type and then a 3D model of the same body type and see how it would look. Then using an algorithm to see if the store has that brand and size.

In n addition to fashinion inducsty this can be used for architecture and construction. You can use it for creating 3D models of building to see how it will look as well as redesign but this can also be used for construction. Once the model is finished, they can use it while they are building to see where things go as well as how much more they can to go. It is also possible to change the final design of the building if they haven't been done already.

This can also be used for games as well. Placing furniture and objects in a room is a lot like Sim games and those city-building games. This can also be used in the same way where the players have to design a room and try to make their clients as happy as possible. The happier they get the more money they give, which you can use to buy more furniture.

Lastly, this can also be used for education. Teachers can utilize this technology by bringing it into the classes room. They cause to use it shows students history buy placing old-timey objects into the classroom and see how it was like back then. They can also use it to place objects in the room and students need to figure out which one doesn't belong. This will make learning more fun and engage.