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Which augmented reality real estate app is best for visualizing realistic furniture placement?

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For consumer-facing furniture visualization, IKEA Place and Houzz lead in realism and catalog depth. For professional real estate staging, roOomy and BoxBrownie offer extensive furniture libraries specifically designed for property marketing. No special hardware is needed: modern iPhones support ARKit and most recent Android devices support ARCore, so you simply point your camera at an empty room and these apps render photorealistic 3D furniture anchored to the physical floor and walls. Apple's RoomPlan API (iPhone Pro) provides the best spatial anchoring accuracy for AR placement, so apps leveraging this framework tend to produce the most convincing results.

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