Seeing furniture in the apartment before buying it: IKEA drills 3D planners with AI

Try digital furniture: IKEA has been doing this for more than a decade. But now the possibilities for digital spatial planning have been properly expanded. With the help of AI, it should be possible to completely set up your own apartment before you buy it.

No tidying up necessary: ​​take a picture, set it up

The year is 2013: augmented reality is the latest craze, IKEA announces a corresponding app with which furniture can be placed in one’s own home before it is bought. Around 10 years later, AI is the big topic of the hour, fittingly IKEA is also speaking up again with its own implementation. Under the heading “IKEA Kreativ”, the 3D room planner on its own website and in the app is properly augmented with artificial intelligence.

The new 3D planner: In the app…
… and on the website

As the developers emphasize, modern image recognition technology “like that used in self-driving cars” and AI can offer significantly more options for placing furniture in your own four walls. The three basic functions: IKEA relies on a “patented technology” to create 3D models of rooms based on images. With the “furniture eraser” function, objects can then be removed with AI support.

The final step is to select the furniture and place it in the room. With regard to the availability of its goods in the new 3D planner, the group currently only speaks of a “large selection of pieces of furniture, accessories, wall decorations and carpets” that can be placed in the new planner, but the entire catalog is not included. With the available models, however, an automatic display in the correct scale and a photo-realistic adjustment to the lighting of the room should take place.

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