IKEA releases a free VR application "IKEA VR Experience" that allows you to experience a kitchen in virtual space

IKEA is an AR application that can actually place furniture in the catalog in the roomIKEA CatalogWe are trying to virtually arrange IKEA furniture in my room. Although full-fledged VR headsets are appearing in 2016, IKEA also takes a VR flow, and a free VR application that can walk around the IKEA kitchen in virtual space "IKEA VR Experience」For" HTC Vive "with the game software platform · Steam released.

IKEA Launches Pilot Virtual Reality (VR) Kitchen Experience for HTC Vive on Steam - IKEA
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/040516_Virtual-Reality

With "IKEA VR Experience" released at Steam, IKEA has decided to tackle VR technology for the first time. It is aimed for customer feedback by having customers experience virtual IKEA space for free. In recent years IKEA has adopted a policy to further improve feedback, he said he was looking for new technology to receive feedback from customers. IKEA VR Experience is part of efforts to push that policy.

IKEA VR Experience is an application that you can walk in the kitchen room on the virtual space while you are at home, you can experience improvements by walking through three kinds of kitchens with different settings, and you can also search yourself for about 195 cm from a child size of about 100 cm Adult size can be adjusted to feature. In addition to searching for improvements by actually experiencing walking in the kitchen with your own eyes, by experiencing "What will happen if a child actually runs a kitchen?", It also helps to discover dangers that IKEA does not expect in IKEA And that.

"The development of VR technology is remarkable, VR products will take root in people's lives between five and ten years, we believe that VR will also play a major role for customers of IKEA, I think that will be the best way to experience, "said Jesper Brodin, IKEA Swedish manager.

In addition, it is actually published on the Steam download page and you can see what kind of VR experience is possible from the screenshot. When the HTC Vive is set on the head, the following kitchen room is displayed and it seems that you can move by operating the controller and open the drawer of the furniture.


You can instantly change wall patterns and furniture materials, and you can explore the best combination not known to anyone.


The line of sight can be freely adjusted, for example, if you look into the child's eyes, you can experience that "How does the child see the kitchen?"


When opening the drawer it is like this. You can also put a frying pan etc inside, so you can watch the furniture of IKEA as if you were watching the showroom.


IKEA stores also have settings that assume kitchens and living rooms, but even in virtual space where you can make more favorable materials and colors.


In addition, HTC Vive has reported shipping problems, but the delivery itself has been started. People who receive HTC Vive can get the VR application to experience the IKEA kitchen room from the following Steam page.

Steam: IKEA VR Experience
http://store.steampowered.com/app/447270/


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