Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings and decor giant, has been one of the leaders among retailers when it comes to adapting to tech innovations that impact its business, being one of the first to launch augmented reality applications, partnering with others to develop smart home devices and launching a business unit to build that out further, investing in relevant startups, and even picking up of logistics startups to expand its reach. Today, it's taking another step in that trajectory with a tech acquisition: the company has acquired Geomagical Labs, an AI imaging startup based out of Mountain View. Geomagical Labs has a number of computer vision-based technologies in the works right now, but its first product -- which allows a user to quickly scan a room using any smartphone, render that into a 3D picture, remove all the furniture in it, and then, in the words of Geomagical's founder and CEO Brian Totty, "play dress up" by adding in new items.
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