One of the major hassles faced by most people while furnishing their dream homes is the inability to accurately predict what the final version of their homes would look like. While you may have selected a blue sofa, a red and white modular kitchen or a teak finish bar cabinet, it would typically take many trips to different showrooms and multiple sessions with the interior designer to figure out if your selection matches the flooring and walls of your home.

All that is about to change, as online furniture and home décor players revolutionise the way homes are furnished with 3D renditions of the kind of bedroom or bathroom that you have in mind, offering hundreds of permutations and combinations that help customers zero in and buy what they want much faster.

Modular home furnishing start-up HomeLane.com has introduced a 3D virtual reality app called Kaleido, which uses a head-mounted device, with a mobile phone that is loaded with the app to help customers view different designs, colours and looks for their new home. “Kaleido is an assisted discovery app, a showroom-in-a-box wherein, customers who contact us on our website, get to meet with our interior designers who take them through the whole shopping experience and supplement it with product catalogues where customers can touch and feel swatches, laminates and colours, to make quick buy decisions,” Srikanth Iyer, co-founder and CEO, HomeLane, told BusinessLine .

Urban Ladder’s 3D augmented reality app ‘Living Spaces’ has increased the company’s home trial conversions from 25 per cent to 50 per cent.

“During home trials, where we physically take a few sofas to customer homes, our consultants use Living Spaces to help customers place life size models to visualise their entire living room, select multiple colour and seating options without the hassle of moving physical furniture around. As a result, sofas have emerged as our best selling category,” said Rajiv Srivatsa, co-founder and COO, Urban Ladder.

The company launched an Urban Storage Wardrobe app with 1,000 configuration options last month and will launch a modular kitchen app in August which consultants will use at customer homes.

Pepperfry’s 3D augmented reality app for iOS and Android, which is currently in Beta has already seen 30,000 downloads and will be launched in a few weeks.

The app also hosts Pepperfry Design Gurus community, through which users can initiate discussions by sharing images and queries with Pepperfry’s registered user base and interior design experts.

Sanjay Netrabile, CTO, Pepperfry, said: “The app empowers users to shop on the go, and share their shopping list with friends and family on Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, directly from the product display page.”

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