IKEA seems to be beginning to take a special interest in Apple products and, as confirmed by the company itself, are working together with the iPhone manufacturer to create an application that makes use of augmented reality (AR) helps you see how the furniture will look in your home before buying it, thus helping you make the decision of whether it is the most suitable for your living room, whether it fits well in the space you have available or whether it matches the curtains.
The app will be available this fall and it is expected to be one of the first to make use of the AR Kit that Apple announced in the last WWDC 2017, where it showed us only a few brushstrokes of what could be done with this new tool for developers that promises to revolutionize the world of applications and games in the immediate future.
The application is expected to debut together with the launch of iOS 11, perhaps we can even see it in the Keynote presentation of the new iPhone 8 next September, although it may suffer some delay and its launch will be later than that of the new system. Apple operating. The first thing you can do is take a photo of your room and with pinpoint precision be able to place IKEA accessories and furniture in the room.. It is something that can now be done only in part with the application already available, but according to the IKEA spokesperson, this new application will be much better. In addition, the application will improve in successive versions.
IKEA has also announced that its demotics products will be compatible with HomeKit in the near future., which together with this news of the use of AR seems to be an unequivocal sign that the European company is very aware of Apple users, which is undoubtedly great news given the enormous popularity of the Swedish company and its prices more than competitive.