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Oh, that actually sounds like a cool idea for an AR app.

Imagine using AR to add furnitures to your current room with furniture from a virtual catalogue. That way, you can see how your room would look like instead of imagining it inside your head.

And if IKEA were to do it, they can just add shopping feature so the customer could purchase the furniture after trying it out inside their own room. That totally sounds like a killer app!

I wonder if there's anything like that already on the market.



IKEA has already built & launched that, it's called IKEA Place: https://www.ikea.com/au/en/customer-service/mobile-apps/say-...

iOS only though: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikea-place/id1279244498


Wow, I didn't know that was a thing, thanks for sharing it!


> Imagine using AR to add furnitures to your current room with furniture from a virtual catalogue. That way, you can see how your room would look like instead of imagining it inside your head.

It exists. The IKEA Smart app (from IKEA itself).


Geomagical are doing that: https://geomagical.com/


Imagine using AR to add furnitures to your current room with furniture from a virtual catalogue

I don't know if they made it generally available, but I know IKEA made a demo/beta app that did just that.




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