Furniture IKEA develops Apple and AR application, it will be able to test furniture of its own in the room

WWDC 2017 AR application development kit "ARKitIt is reported that Apple, which has made full use of AR content making, such as releasing AR, is developing killer contents of AR jointly with furniture maker IKEA.

Ikea om samarbetet med Apple: "Superintressant för oss"
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In SwedenDi DigitalReported that IKEA is jointly developing AR applications with Apple. IKEA and Apple jointly develop "an application that allows you to place IKEA furniture in your room". "Is this furniture suited to your room?" "Can you put it in the room?" It is very difficult to choose a furniture, simply hold the iPhone or iPad and shoot it with a camera and shoot 3D furniture in your room It is planned to be the content of the royal road as an AR usage that arranges it.


In addition, IKEA has released the AR application "IKEA catalog" in 2013, and it is known for some time that he has worked on attempting to arrange furniture from AR.

I tried using IKEA's AR application "IKEA catalog" that can actually place furniture in the catalog in the room - GIGAZINE


The furniture that can be used with AR when releasing an application will be 500 to 600 kinds. Of course, we can anticipate correspondence to the net shopping function "Arrange furniture in AR space and purchase instantly online", but it seems that whether or not the Internet mail order function will be installed at the time of application release is not fixed.

Inter IKEA CEO Trubjorn Roof said, "We want to open doors to catch the glimpse of the future," he said, allowing him to jointly develop AR applications with Apple. According to Mr. Roof, the joint development of AR applications with Apple is part of efforts to make IKEA and Apple products available to many people, and will continue to increase sales opportunities by utilizing digital technology is. In addition, Mr. Jesper Brodin will take over CEO of Inter IKEA on September 1, 2017, but Mr. Brodin said AR applications co-developed with Apple are synonymous with IKEA "Flat pack"Since then, we are said to be the largest innovation.


Apple predicts that the next iPhone's flagship model "iPhone 8 (tentative name)" will adopt a vertically placed dual camera, but the reason for this is to use the AR function when shooting in landscape orientation It is done. The IKEA AR application is expected to adopt the iPhone 8 next iOS "IOS 11"It is expected to be released in the fall of 2017 according to.