WIRED IKEA's Studio app uses AR and LiDAR to let you design the layouts of entire rooms right on your phone. TIRED You still have to go to an actual IKEA to get those dope Swedish meatballs. (From 2021)
that he was so excited about augmented reality that he wanted “to yell out and scream.” He name-checked IKEA and cited buying furniture as a prime example of something that can be completely changed by AR.
Moving on from just adding virtual chairs and lamps to a room, SPACE10 says the goal here for IKEA is to help people design entire rooms using the LiDAR sensors in an iPhone. That’s right; this is still an Apple-only project for IKEA. Frustratingly, however, the app is once again not connected to the IKEA website or retail app. 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. You have to open up Studio and start from scratch.