Thanks to augmented reality and Google, you can digitally place IKEA furniture in your home
IKEA is not only known as a Scandinavian furniture giant with building kits, but also as a company that likes to let technology work for itself. For example, you could see in the app quite early on how a Poang chair or a Billy bookcase would look in the corner of your room thanks to augmented reality. Now it goes one step further: in collaboration with Google Search, there is now the possibility to make your entire living room a kind of IKEA. Without Småland then.
Google and IKEA
Google and IKEA have teamed up to show you in augmented reality what the furniture would look like in your home directly in the company’s search results. They are displayed in their actual size: you can rotate them or move them, but it is not possible to reduce or enlarge them. Fortunately, because then you can not get confused and order a Poang, only to find out that it is not made for Barbies, but for grown-up people (although there is also a children’s version, Poang Children’s Armchair).
If you also want to see IKEA furniture in your own home (or even digitally in 3D), then you proceed as follows:
- Open the Google app on your Android phone
- Look up an IKEA product, such as Billy cabinet or Poang chair
- The screen will then show ‘View in 3D’
- Tap on it, and you will see the furniture digitally in 3D
- Then also tap on ‘Show in your room’ and you can try out the furniture in your home.
augmented reality
As you can see, it is somewhat similar to the augmented reality animals that you can view via Google, only this is a bit more convenient in terms of shopping and trying on. It is very difficult to realize when your shop is standing how gigantic a bank actually is for you. Measuring is knowing, but apparently Googling also helps with that ‘knowing’.
Still handy: you no longer have to open and use the IKEA Place app. It is now much easier to quickly see the status of a certain product. But, what you still have to do yourself, of course, is to buy the product and… assemble it. Google cannot help you with that.
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