Receive an email a day with our articles:IKEA has been experimenting with augmented reality applications for almost a decade.In August 2013, it already let us see on our mobiles how its furniture would look in our living room or bedroom, and now it has gone a step further.Its new mobile app, called IKEA Kreativ, makes use of the latest advances in spatial computing, machine learning and 3D mixed reality technologies to achieve something remarkable: being able to empty any room and then redecorate it.With furniture from your catalog, of course.IKEA Kreativ shows 50 virtual windows that allow you to explore its extensive catalog and get ideas and inspiration.From there, users can change furniture, rotate it, stack it or hang it.The application especially takes advantage of the LiDAR sensors of devices such as the latest generation iPhone and iPad and uses them in its Scene Scanner.Users can also create virtual replicas of their home rooms with detailed dimensions and perspectives.It is precisely this technology that allows us to "empty" those rooms and rooms to create those replicas that we can then furnish and redecorate from the catalog available in the application.This allows us to get an idea of ​​how that room will look with that new decoration.Although Scene Scanner takes advantage of LiDAR, this component is not essential: the rest of the devices may also have this capacity, although this option of Apple devices "allows the collection of additional spatial details", they say at IKEA.IKEA Kreativ is an evolution of the IKEA Place app that was launched in 2017 and was updated in 2019, allowing you to see more than one product in augmented reality at the same time, as well as seeing an entire room.If we therefore want to get the most out of the application, we will have to use models such as the iPhone 12 Pro/Max or the iPhone 13 Pro/Max.In old models or even via the web, we will have to take several photos of the room that we want to redecorate.Those photos are then "automatically processed and merged into an interactive, wide-angle replica of the space, with accurate dimensions and perspective."From there, they explain at IKEA, "you will be able to remove your current furniture and put in new IKEA pieces, quickly trying out alternatives and completely designing the room. All of our ideas can be saved for later or shared with others. Naturally, the app also lets you add your favorite pieces to your shopping cart".These types of improvements will be increasingly common, for example in iOS 16, especially since Apple has created the ARKit RoomPlan API call that allows, thanks to the use of LiDAR and iPhone and iPad cameras, "to create plans of our house in seconds".The new app, created by the Ingka Group — IKEA's largest chain of stores — is initially available in the United States for iOS users, but will be available for Android users "soon" and in more countries throughout fiscal year 2023.More information |IKEAShare The new IKEA app empties your house and then redecorates it with its furniture: long live augmented realityMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videos