IKEA Details Plans for Furniture Placement App Powered by Apple's ARKit

[dannys1]

Not really. People aren't really going to wear VR headsets to shop for furniture. VR is also cost prohibitive and impractical in this, and many other commercial applications. VR is probably going to be relegated to gaming and training sims.

AR on the other hand is primed for commercial applications such as this Ikea project. AR, from a consumers perspective, only requires the equipment we already own. No need for expensive nor cumbersome headsets and you don't lose the connection with the real world around you.

You can't really discuss AR and VR together. They are entirely separate technologies with entirely separate purposes.

I meant AR...

 

[MacGuffin]

Look, I'll save you some "virtuality" trouble here. Just go into IKEA and look at how the MDF furniture is gouged and chipped. That's your new sweatshop purchase in six months.

 

[street.cory]

Look, I'll save you some "virtuality" trouble here. Just go into IKEA and look at how the MDF furniture is gouged and chipped. That's your new sweatshop purchase in six months.

I mean, that can happen. I've had the following IKEA items for nearly two years and none of them are chipped or gouged:

LACK coffee table, Hemnes night stand x2, Hemnes TV unit, Brusali TV unit, Kullen chest of drawers and dresser.

Some of those items are made out of pine/pooplar/acacia and not just MDF.