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Kmart releases new online-exclusive large furniture range

Kmart has added many more pieces to its Online Exclusives range, comprising of affordable larger-sized home solutions not previously available in store. Announcing more than 100 new styles for the home, they’ve already begun arriving online and will continue to drop in the coming weeks to form part of their ongoing range.

The Thorne entertainment unit

Kmart’s move to broaden its online-only offering started last year, with plans to continue to expand their offering and provide customers with greater access to homewares all year round. Styles were released as a test and learn during the initial launch, and the range now comprises of products within furniture, bedding, rugs, nursery products, fitness equipment, and outdoor play equipment.

“We promised we had more to come in the larger furniture range and we are so excited to now be delivering on this. We love the solutions and hope our customers do too,” said, Callum Smith, Kmart’s general manager for general merchandise. “We want to offer our community a complete solution for their home so as families grow
or families downsize, they have access to great designs at the most affordable prices.”

This two-tone cot is an eye-catching addition to any nursery

Augmented Reality (AR) to visualise your purchases

Kmart are offering 48 products through Augmented Reality (AR) to see for yourself how they might look in your home. With an AR-compatible smartphone, you can scan, place, move, zoom in and out, or rotate, to view the product from all angles.

The new range also includes several exercise machines, such as this stationary spin bike

Got any questions? You can ask the KBot assist. The AI conversational chat assistant can answer product-related questions, recommend complementary products that are viewable in AR straight away, and can turn your thoughts into reality.

Kmart’s head of digital marketing, Melissa Wong said: “We launched KBot late last year and it has been received incredibly well and that is why it was the perfect time to extend this immersive engagement for our Online Exclusives range. It elevates the customer’s shopping experience by getting close with our products virtually and offering AI conversational assistance along the way.”

This desk with storage complements existing pieces in the Kmart range.

Visit www.klabs.com.au to enter the immersive product experience and explore, play and shop the new Online Exclusive range.

Kmart’s online exclusive range is available to purchase on the Kmart website.

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Shopping just got easier with IKEA’s augmented reality app

Have you ever looked online, found the perfect sofa, been totally excited, only to buy it, take it home and realise: “Oh crap, it doesn’t fit”? You wouldn’t be alone. How a piece of furniture looks online versus in your home can vary dramatically. So here’s where IKEA Place comes in.

An augmented reality (AR) app, it lets people confidently experiment with the design of their home, office, school or studio. From sofas and armchairs to coffee tables and storage solutions, all of the products in IKEA Place are 3D and automatically scaled – based on your room dimensions – with 98% accuracy. The AR technology is so precise that you will be able to see the texture of the fabric, as well as how light and shadows are rendered on your furnishings.

So how does it work? Turns out it’s pretty simple. First download the app and snap a photo with your device of the place where you would like the IKEA product to be. Next browse through the app for your item of choice, select it to insert it into your photo and then move it into place. And you’re done (watch the video below if you’re still a little confused)! You can then share your photo or save it and use the app to price and reserve the item.

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More than 2,000 IKEA products will be available when the app launches. The items in the first release are aligned to the living room, so expect some of IKEA’s most recognisable faces such as the VIMLE sofa, the STRANDMON winged chair and the LISABO side table.

IKEA Place will be available to download from the App Store soon, so stay tuned!

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