For makers of garden buildings
Try it: tap View in your garden to see this sauna on the ground in front of you.
Shoppers point their phone at the lawn and see your building standing there at full size. It's called augmented reality, or AR, and it works on iPhone and Android with no app. We build your range from your drawings and keep it up to date.
In half a minute
What you get
One managed service: we build true-scale 3D models of your products, you sign off the dimensions, and the viewer puts them on your shop and your retailers' shops. We keep them up to date as the range changes.
A paid pilot: we build one product family, in all its sizes or just your best sellers, you sign off the dimensions, your web developer adds the button to your product pages, and we test it there on iPhone and Android. Then you decide whether to keep it and add the rest of the range.
How it's made
We build each product family from its drawings with our own software, so every size and option is made in one go and matches them. When your range changes, we update every size at once.
Your drawingsAssembly manuals, parts lists and dimensioned views.
Built to sizeEach model checked automatically against your drawings’ overall sizes.
You sign offA dimension sheet for each size, with drawings, for your team to approve.
On your pagesYour web developer adds the button with two lines of code, on Shopify or any other site.Install
Your web developer pastes these two lines onto your product pages, and your retailers paste the same two lines to show it on theirs. Notes for your developer. It takes your fonts and colours, and can follow the variant the shopper picks.
Demos
Saunas, hot tubs, garden offices, cabins and greenhouses. Open one on a phone and tap "View in your garden".
SaunasBarrel and cube saunas in three sizes, glass wall and Thermo, door and inside views.Open →
Hot tubsWood-fired tubs and a cold plunge, two finishes.Open →
Garden officeThree sizes, natural or charcoal, doors open and inside views.Open →
Log cabinInterlocking logs, three sizes, natural or Thermo.Open →
GreenhouseThree sizes in silver, green or black, door open and inside views.Open →
On a product pageThe viewer in a stand-in shop, with shop colours to try.Open →
Why I built it
I wanted a barrel sauna for my garden, but I wasn't sure which size would be right. I could read the dimensions, but I couldn't picture how each size would fit, or where it would sit best.
So I built a true-scale model I could stand outside with my phone and walk round before choosing. Now your customers can do the same, from your own product pages.
Ben Huss, founder of ar.garden. I've worked in immersive media since 2015, through my studio Immersi, for clients including the NHS, Honda and PwC.
Questions
Send us your drawings, assembly manuals and product photos. We build a true-scale 3D model of every size, finish and option you sell, you sign off the dimensions, and your web developer adds the button to your product pages with two lines of code, on Shopify or any other site. Shoppers tap "View in your garden" and stand the building on their own lawn at full size.
Augmented reality. The phone's camera shows the garden in front of you, with a 3D model placed in it at true size. Here, a shopper points their phone at the lawn and sees your building standing there, then walks round it and looks inside. It's the same idea furniture shops use to show a sofa in your room.
No. The button opens the augmented reality (AR) viewer built into the phone: AR Quick Look on iPhone and Google's Scene Viewer on Android. On a computer it shows a QR code that opens the same product, with the same options chosen, on the shopper's phone.
Saunas, hot tubs and cold plunges, greenhouses, log cabins, garden offices, garden rooms and pergolas. The demos on this page show most of them. We model every size, finish and option you sell, and the viewer only offers the options sold with each size.
Each model is built from your drawings and checked against them, aiming for within 20 mm of every published figure. Before anything goes live, your team approves a dimension sign-off sheet for every model, and we correct anything that doesn't match until you sign it off.
Yes. Your web developer adds it to your own shop with two lines of code, and any retailer you approve can show the same button by pasting the same two lines. That's included. Retailers whose sites can't run it can have the model files instead, where their platform accepts 3D.
Usually about two weeks from your drawings to live pages. Our own software makes every size and option in one go, and a change to your range updates them all together. Most of the time is on your side: checking the dimension sheet, then your web developer adding the two lines.
It depends on how many products and sizes you sell, so we quote after a short call. There's a fee to build the models, then a yearly fee to host them and keep them up to date. You start with a paid pilot: one product family, in all its sizes or just your best sellers, live on your product pages for 12 weeks. Then you decide whether to keep it and add the rest of the range.
ar.garden is made by Sohus Ltd, a London company registered in England and Wales (company number 09369062). It was founded by Ben Huss, who has worked in immersive media since 2015 through his studio Immersi, for clients including the NHS, Honda and PwC.
Weighing up the options? Read our guide to adding View in your garden AR: the three ways to do it, and what to check before it goes live.
Contact
Tell us what you sell and we'll show you one of your products in your customers' gardens, then scope a pilot.