Entourage Yearbooks Introduces Augmented Reality Yearbook Previews

PRINCETON, N.J. - EntSun -- Entourage Yearbooks today announced AR View, a new augmented reality feature that lets students, staff, and yearbook advisers see their finished cover in three dimensions and place a full-size preview of the book in their own room, classroom, or anywhere else — using nothing more than the camera on an iPhone or Android device.

Once a cover is designed in the Entourage online platform, the user simply scans a QR code. Their phone opens a rotatable, true-to-size 3D model of the book, then hands off to the device's built-in AR engine to drop it into the real world at actual scale. There is nothing to download and no app to install — the entire experience runs in the phone's browser.

The feature is built on the same augmented reality technology that major retailers such as Amazon and IKEA use for their "View in Your Room" tools. It relies on Apple's AR Quick Look on iPhone and iPad, Google's ARCore and Scene Viewer on Android, and the widely adopted glTF and USDZ 3D file formats — mature, industry-standard frameworks that power millions of retail AR experiences every day. Entourage has brought that same proven approach to the one product schools care about most: their yearbook.

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For yearbook editors, the biggest payoff is finally being able to see how a design behaves at the edges. One of the hardest things to judge on a flat screen is how artwork wraps across the front, back, and — especially — the spine, and how it interacts with the hinges and trim of a real bound book. AR View shows the cover from every angle, so advisers and students can catch a title that runs too close to the spine or an image that gets clipped at the edge before the book goes to print, not after.

"Every year, yearbook editors design a cover on a flat screen and then cross their fingers about how it will actually look as a finished book," said Elias Jo, Founder and CTO of Entourage Yearbooks. "AR View takes the guesswork out of it. You can turn the book over in 3D, check the spine and the hinges, and even set it down life-size on your desk. It gives our schools a level of confidence in their design that, as far as we know, no other yearbook company offers."

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AR View is one of the first and only augmented reality preview tools available in the school yearbook industry, and it is part of a broader wave of technology Entourage is rolling out this year. Additional AI-assisted design, image editing, and layout features are scheduled to arrive throughout the year, all aimed at making yearbook creation faster, easier, and more collaborative for advisers and students alike.

AR View is available now to schools using the Entourage online design platform. It works in the browser on devices running iOS 12 or later and on ARCore-supported Android devices.