PHOTO: The Australian-developed Realar Places app places a virtual house in a real space for buyers to visualise using only their smartphone or tablet.

An Australian-developed augmented reality app is giving new homebuyers the chance to walk through and experience off-the-plan houses in life-size 3D.

The Realar Places app fuses the real-world environment with a 3D rendering of the prospective home allowing users to view the layout, stroll through rooms and even look out the digital windows on their own block of land using only their smartphone or tablet.

It was launched in the Apple store in December and has so far been downloaded about 250 times by mostly US and Australian architects, designers, property developers and volume home builders.

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