Apple Enhances Augmented Reality Quick Look Feature in Safari With Links to Make Shopping Online Easier

Apple is enhancing its Augmented Reality Quick Look feature that's designed to allow users to see augmented reality versions of products they're intending to purchase right in their houses.

According to CNET and TechCrunch, Apple has updated the Quick Look preview feature in Safari to allow retailers to add links and buttons to the augmented reality experience.

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When browsing sites like Home Depot, Wayfair, Bang & Olufsen, and 1-800-Flowers, customers will now see options to make purchases and learn more about a product while previewing it in AR mode.

Apple added the Quick Look browsing feature to Safari in 2018, and on sites that have implemented it, it adds a button for putting a 3D object in a room so its size, shape, and other features can be previewed prior to a purchase.

Apple introduced the new link and button tools in iOS 13 and previewed them at WWDC, but retailers have just now begun incorporating the new features.

Prior to the addition of links and other information at the bottom of the augmented reality viewing window, users would need to tap out of the experience to make the purchase or learn more about an item.

The links essentially streamline the shopping process, making it easier to add an item to a shopping cart, find a nearby store, or chat with customer service.

Later this year, Apple plans to further enhance Quick Look with a spatial audio feature, which is included in the iOS 13.4 beta. Spatial audio will allow shopping sites and other augmented reality sites within Safari to add audio to the experience.

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Top Rated Comments

anthogag Avatar
65 months ago
Cool feature. A person can try a shirt using the selfie camera OR view a vehicle in one’s living room.
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oxfordrunner Avatar
65 months ago
Is an AR app available that takes a bunch of photos of real objects in front of you (not products on a website) and then enables you to move them around, digitally? I feel like this should exist already via AR Kit. I don't want products on a website in my home necessarily, I want to move my own furniture around digitally, or anything else I want. I want to be able to take a bunch of photos, and/or specify dimensions, etc. then move stuff. Anyone else?
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Morgenland Avatar
65 months ago
Fantastic, will be a huge success!
I've waited a long time for this step to come...
I hope that soon all internet shops will display their products in 3D by default. You just want to see if they fit in your home or on your body. It's great that Apple is now finally creating a standard GUI interface and due to market power will establish it (while others are still hesitant to take a step with AR).
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