Google Search with its latest AR household utility tool, turns your home into a virtual Ikea showroom
Since the day we got touchscreen phones, technology has become so far from that. Many new technologies and advanced features are making our world all about technology. Google is collaborating with a Swedish home furnishings company and future brand IKEA to be able to make all the products in augmented reality directly from Google searches.
Ikea provides a vast variety of products that will make it almost impossible to find the best product that fits perfectly with your interior or living spaces. Users will be able to view the products in 3D format right through the search result. As per reports from 9to5Google, Ikea is the latest addition to this list. Any product you are searching for via the Android search bar will trigger a prompt that will let you see the product in 3D view.
A photorealistic 3D render of the product will display on the screen when you tap that, and you can use swipe movements to view it from all sides. There is a specific option to view your space located just above the Visit button. Ikea’s item appears in augmented reality when you use this tool. The life-sized furniture may then be dropped into your space and moved around to see if it fits in a certain location and to ensure that the colors match your décor.
The fact that you cannot scale the AR models for Ikea objects, unlike Google’s AR Playground creations, isn’t altogether a bad thing. It takes away the chance of user error and gives everyone who is assessing product fit a dependable, uniform experience.
It’s interesting to note that the Swedish company has used AR technology before. Ikea internally created a solution back in 2018 and released it as the Ikea Place app. We put it to the test and were happy with the outcome. The software still exists on APKMirror and in the Apple software store; however, in 2019, it disappeared from Android without anyone noticing.
With Google’s latest development of making an AR household utility tool, you will experience the product just like you are doing it physically in real life. This will save you time that you would have spent visiting a location.
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