roomle uses Apples´s ARKit for furniture placing & room sketching
roomle offers its users an unique and best-in-class augmented furniture experience. Ikea is on everyone’s lips, but roomle meets the “here-and-now“ motivation of 2.1+ million registered worldwide.
Creating plans, selecting styles, individually configuring furniture, buying items by click and viewing the results in 2D/3D/VR and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) based AR is now a child´s play for everybody — mobile and web. The incredibly simple user interface, matches all technologies — including Apple´s ARKit.
USE CASES:
View furniture live in your room:
Augmented Reality displays furniture from the roomle catalog in real environments, automatically scales products based on a room dimensions and makes you see how light and shadows are rendered on your furnishings. Configure objects to your needs or collect your picks in a “favorite” section and follow furniture shop links to buy on the spot. Let yourself inspire by furniture set suggestions or “similar products” to expand your choices.
Augmented room scanning:
An easy way to setup floorplans and to build inspirational spaces. Walk through your room and measure it with your mobile device. roomle turns your data into a 1: 1 room plan which you can further set up and furnish.
Advantages of Apple´s ARKit:
- Fast and stable motion tracking: VIO blends your CoreMotion data and camera sensor data. With these two inputs, your device can come to a better understanding of how it is moving within a room, with high accuracy, and without any need for additional calibration. It makes objects look like they are being kept in actual space, instead of simply hovering over it.
- Light estimation: ARKit takes advantage of the camera sensor to judge the amount of light present in a scene and based on this estimate, applies the perfect amount of lighting to virtual objects. These details are what goes into creating a realistic AR content for users.
- Larger audience: The ARKit opens the technology to a much wider audience as it will be part of future iPhones and iPads.
The Apple AR Kit holds a lot of promises for the future. Scan your rooms and furnish them. In combination with roomle you can see how furniture would look in your rooms before buying and moving it. The possibilities are endless and far from exhausted. :)
AR ready for iOS and Android
Besides the successful iOS version, the AR features are available on Android too! The app is equipped with a comprehensive 3D/AR multibrand furniture catalog and innovative visualization options. Check it out:
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