IKEA's Revamped AR App Lets You Design Entire Rooms. ... So if you are buying a rug, say, in the IKEA app, and want to check how it will look in your room, you can’t do this easily.

The Swedish furniture giant is hoping to change that with its new app, IKEA Places, which uses augmented reality (AR) to show you how (digital) furniture looks in your room before you buy it. If ...

Ikea surely won’t be the only retailer to explore this new world; Wayfair, the online furniture emporium, already introduced an AR app earlier this year, and other retailers are experimenting ...

IKEA's augmented reality Place app can be helpful for gauging how furniture will look in your abode, but you've been limited to trying items one at a time -- not much help if you're trying to ...

Ikea Place is free to download from the App Store.So far, it looks like it’s only available in the US. Currently there are a bunch of reviews on the App Store complaining that the screen ...

IKEA was an early adopter of Apple’s powerful ARKit platform with its ‘Place’ application for iOS. That app has received a major update today with a new interface, improved curation, support ...

In other words, you can start connecting non-IKEA smart home products to the IKEA hub, not just the other way around. It’s ...

You might have seen augmented reality (AR) mobile apps that allow you to place 3D models of furniture in a camera view of your home, but a new app from IKEA will take that idea to a new level with ...

Ikea’s been playing with augmented reality (AR) for a few years now – in 2014 they released an AR catalog so shoppers could see what furniture would look like in their homes without ever ...

Now Ikea wants to leave less to your imagination by using Apple’s ARKit to create an AR app that will measure for and place any item in its catalogue, in any spot you can point your phone.

Dive Brief: Ikea on Tuesday announced it is in the "initial phases of testing" a new Ikea app with shopping capabilities, a company spokesperson told Retail Dive in an email.

Ikea will soon launch a new augmented reality app for iOS that uses an iPhone's LiDAR sensor to map a room and give you an empty, virtual equivalent to try new furniture in. And, unlike the ...