{"id":142408,"date":"2022-07-17T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/shopify-demos-apples-roomplan-strips-all-furniture-from-room"},"modified":"2022-07-17T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T21:22:32","slug":"shopify-demos-apples-roomplan-strips-all-furniture-from-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/shopify-demos-apples-roomplan-strips-all-furniture-from-room","title":{"rendered":"Shopify demos Apple\u2019s RoomPlan, strips all furniture from room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shopify-demos-apples-roomplan-strips-all-furniture-from-room2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada-based ecommerce site Shopify has demonstrated an unexpected use of Apple\u2019s RoomPlan API to clear a room before filling it with furniture via <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/Apple-AR\">Apple AR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/06\/08\/apples-roomplan-api-will-enable-iphone-ipad-to-map-out-a-house\">announced RoomPlan<\/a> at WWDC 2022, but by itself this AR technology will not be any Apple app. Instead, RoomPlan is an API that developers can tap into in order to provide its features as part of their own apps.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been anticipated that retailers could use the RoomPlan API in order to show customers what particular items of, say, furniture would look like in their home. Ikea <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/17\/09\/20\/ikeas-augmented-reality-app-now-available-for-download\">has already<\/a> been doing this since shortly after Apple announced ARKit in 2017, but RoomPlan leverages the newer LiDAR technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada-based ecommerce site Shopify has demonstrated an unexpected use of Apple\u2019s RoomPlan API to clear a room before filling it with furniture via Apple AR. Apple announced RoomPlan at WWDC 2022, but by itself this AR technology will not be any Apple app. Instead, RoomPlan is an API that developers can tap into in order [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}