Independent project

Retail AR

Unity AR Developer · Portfolio project

AR retail proof of concept that lets customers place furniture or electronics in their own space before purchase.

Unity
AR Foundation
ARCore
ARKit
Blender

Retail AR uses Unity’s plane tracking to place furniture or electronics on real-world surfaces. It was designed as a proof of concept for retail clients who need customers to judge a product’s size and style before buying — a decision that usually stalls without seeing the item at real scale in the room it’ll live in.

What I built

An AR proof of concept combining ARCore and ARKit plane-tracking support with an event-driven Unity architecture, so product models drop convincingly onto real-world surfaces and respond to the same interaction events regardless of platform. Blender-authored assets stand in for catalog items. The goal was to make product try-outs part of the shopping flow itself — letting a customer size a couch or a TV in their own living room — rather than a separate visualization tool bolted onto checkout.

Screenshots

Mobile product catalogue listing chairs with category filters and prices — Catalogue with category filters.

Product detail screen for a chair with a View in AR button — Product detail, with the handoff into AR.

AR camera view placing a virtual office chair on a real floor beside a physical chair, with colour swatches and a Buy button — Plane-tracked placement in the room, with colourway switching and buy.

Screenshots from the akaashgarg.com portfolio.

Outcome

A working plane-tracked placement demo across ARCore and ARKit, built to show retail clients how in-app product visualization can support both brand discovery and purchase decisions before a customer commits.