# How We Built Size.link

DevFeed: [How We Built Size.link](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-built-size-link-1431.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/how-we-built-size-link>)

Author: Daniel Beauchamp

Published: 2020-07-13T17:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [immersive web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/immersive-web.md>), [3D](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/3d.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Quick Look](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/quicklook.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Three.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/threejs.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

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## AI overview

Shopify explains how it built Size.link, a free web-based augmented reality tool that helps shoppers visualize a product's physical size using a smartphone camera. The solution uses platform-native AR viewers on iOS and Android to avoid requiring a dedicated app.

## Source excerpt

On July 20, 2020 we held ShipIt! Presents: AR/VR at Shopify. Daniel talked about what we're doing with AR/VR at Shopify. The video of the event is available. Size.link is a free tool built by Shopify's Augmented Reality (AR) team that lets anyone view the size of a product in the space around them using their smartphone camera. The tool came out of our April Hack Days focused on helping retailers impacted by Covid-19.