In one of its first deliverables, the Working Group has published a sneak peek at the upcoming guidelines by releasing a high-level summary of the topics that will be covered—including file formats, coordinate systems, geometry, materials, textures, lighting and publishing targets. This summary has been published in Markdown on GitHub under the CC BY 4.0 license. Khronos is inviting feedback, suggestions and contributions from the industry to help guide and improve the full guidelines..

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IKEA (INGKA Group) acquired Geomagical Labs, a leading US-based development company of 3D and visual AI solutions for interactive home furnishing inspiration, based in Silicon Valley, California.

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Today IKEA announces Studio Mode – a new upcoming feature for IKEA Place that will harness the capabilities of Apple’s new iPad Pro to create a more personalised and realistic home furnishing experience. IKEA Place is already one of the most popular AR apps available today. Studio Mode takes it to the next level by interpreting users’ existing homes to render home furnishing solutions that complement their space and style. See also IKEA joins Khronos Board and Deep Learning jobs at IKEA Digital Lab!! Apple Ipad Pro video More info in the press-release here

IKEA Communications AB is now a member of the Khronos Board of Directors.

Khronos does royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing.

IKEA joins the Promoter members: AMD, Apple, Arm, Epic Games, Google, Huawei, Imagination Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, Valve and Verisilicon.

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We now have 3 new position open to work with cutting edge Deep Learning (AI) in the field of Visual data science at IKEA Digital lab. Building future solutions needed to support Spatial Computing experiences that is the Lab’s focus.

Deep Learning Specialist – Lead Visual data science

Deep Learning Specialist – Visual data science

Deep Learning Engineer – Visual data science

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The Zigbee Alliance, an organization of hundreds of companies creating, maintaining, and delivering open, global standards for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that IKEA has joined its Board of Directors. Read more here