{"id":398425,"date":"2017-09-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/12\/ikea-place-augmented-reality-app\/21|23205107"},"modified":"2017-09-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:00:00","slug":"ikeas-place-app-for-ios-previews-furniture-in-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/ikeas-place-app-for-ios-previews-furniture-in-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA&#8217;s Place app for iOS previews furniture in your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The app is free, but the dependence on ARKit logically means you&#8217;ll need to wait for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/26\/ios-11-preview-hands-on\/\">iOS 11<\/a> (we&#8217;ve asked about an Android version now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/29\/google-arcore\/\">ARCore<\/a> is a reality). It won&#8217;t include absolutely every piece of furniture that IKEA sells, it should cover the bases: there will be over 2,000 products on launch, including every armchair, coffee table, footstool and sofa that the Swedish firm sells. You&#8217;ll also see &#8220;top-selling&#8221; storage units. Don&#8217;t expect to preview your home office on day one as a result, but it might be an option: IKEA is promising that Place will have a &#8220;key role&#8221; in product launches.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of augmented reality furniture previews certainly isn&#8217;t new. However, the most accurate apps have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/09\/lowes-tango-ar-app\/\">required specialized hardware<\/a>. Are you really going to buy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/23\/lenovo-phab-2-pro-review\/\">Phab2 Pro<\/a> just to make sure a table is a good fit? IKEA Place theoretically eliminates that hurdle: you can use an off-the-shelf smartphone or tablet and get a reasonably accurate preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app is free, but the dependence on ARKit logically means you&#8217;ll need to wait for iOS 11 (we&#8217;ve asked about an Android version now that ARCore is a reality). It won&#8217;t include absolutely every piece of furniture that IKEA sells, it should cover the bases: there will be over 2,000 products on launch, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":398426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-398425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}