Futuristic home solutions from IKEA

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Isolation has taught us that home is not just a place to sleep. Now we spend a lot of time here, working and doing homework with our children. During the pandemic, people began to spend much more money on furniture for the home and garden, and IKEA designers decided to develop new ideas for homes in the post-coronavirus era.

In the era of COVID-19, IKEA and its innovation lab Space10 have not released another series of bookshelves and have presented a project called Everyday Experiments . The concept is posted on a separate website and consists of 18 avant-garde ideas created by several design companies. Their authors try to answer the question of how future technologies will affect our home life. In these projects, artificial intelligence and augmented reality are more important than cotton and wood.

The new collection has little to do with COVID-19—no masks or germicidal bangladesh number data lamps—but instead, IKEA is using the moment of revolution in human consciousness to present bold, innovative ideas to the public.

For example, Optical Soundsystem from the design studio ManvsMachine is an optical sound system that allows you to visualize sound using augmented reality technologies. In the designers’ vision, music looks like a bright rainbow of sand spreading across the floor of the room (of course, this is an illusion, not real sand). To implement this idea, you need to perform a lot of complex technical operations: for example, create an accurate 3D model of your room, taking into account the location of the speakers relative to each other, and project the image onto a specific space. However, the result looks so incredible that you want to forget about all the technical difficulties and just enjoy the spectacle.

Random Studio 's Point and Repair scans furniture to find possible breakage and ways to fix it. It uses augmented reality and object tracking technologies to do so. It's hard to imagine how the developers are going to detect a loose screw on the back of a cabinet without installing built-in sensors in the furniture, but the idea itself looks appealing.