Augmented reality: a technology to visualize furniture and plants in our interior

The innovation of the day is a new form of virtual fitting.

After the clothes, it is the furniture, the lights and the plants that we will be able to visualize at home before buying them.

Ikea was the first in the field with what is called augmented reality.

We use the camera on our cell phone.

You film your interior and superimpose any piece of furniture from the catalog in full size.

To then view it from any angle.

It works, but the images remained a bit static.

From now on, we are going much further: the color of the furniture will be able to adjust according to the lighting of the room.

We will see, for example, the shadows appear on it.

We can even get an idea of ​​the rendering in full sun or in winter when it's gray.

We really visualize a coffee table or a sofa in situation.

It just lacks being able to wallow on it.

Do you have to start by moving your own furniture?

Not even, since the technology is able to scan the room, to remove the pieces of furniture that bother us before replacing them with new ones.

It also works with plants, if you want to see what a palm tree would look like in the living room.

And even with lights.

This makes it possible to know, for example, how a lamp will illuminate a room, if it is powerful enough.

All this through the screen and the camera of his cell phone.

Is it already available?

It's in beta (in preview).

It should therefore not be long.

A technology developed by Space 10 for furniture and Nektar studio for plants.

Another proof of how confinement has exploded the use of digital technologies.

As if you could soon do everything, with your phone, without leaving your home.