Your new office on a tablet

Furniture is already frequently sold online today. But there’s a big drawback: this way, it’s very difficult to judge the effect in your own offices. Augmented reality apps provide the remedy. They allow furniture to be projected directly into your own spatial surroundings on a smartphone or tablet screen. At Orgatec, ASSMANN presented its own augmented reality app – one of the first office furniture manufacturers to do so. 

Augmented reality (AR) has become one of the leading trends in the furniture industry. Furniture can easily be projected into a room of your choice in the form of a 3D simulation, and in all the versions on offer.ASSMANN is a trailblazer in this technology, and is one of the first manufacturers of office furniture systems to make an augmented reality app available to its specialist trade partners. Using this AR app – at present only available for tablets – individual furniture configurations can be virtually placed in your own office on-screen. In addition, it provides the option of using configurations that have been pre-installed or constructed in-house. ‘With our “ASSMANN AR-app” we’re bringing augmented reality to the furniture sector,’ enthuses Managing Partner Dirk Aßmann. ‘It opens up entirely new possibilities for our sales partners and customers.’ 

Moreover, using the app is uncomplicated and quickly learned. After the tablet’s camera has scanned the surroundings of the room, virtual furnishings can be placed at any point desired. You can either choose pre-installed ASSMANN office furniture groups. or create a free configuration from the ASSMANN product range. The furnishings are first created using the p.Con.Box planning program, and can then be adjusted totally individually in terms of their size, colour, accessories and version. Afterwards, they are exported to the ASSMANN AR app and saved there. 

The AR app is initially to be tested in the specialist trade over the coming months. In this way, customers can be shown individual furniture configurations on a tablet. Subsequently, the selected furniture combinations are saved and the desired configuration is ordered. Dirk Aßmann sums it up: ‘We are confident that, in the medium-term, the app will become established in many of our dealings with customers. Future refinement and expansion of the AR app to cover additional areas of service and provision are also planned.”