IKEA VR Experience
Released Apr 2016
Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.
69% positive · 385 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
IKEA VR Experience launched on April 4, 2016 as a free, explicitly time-limited pilot project. The store description stated upfront that it was a "pilot/test" planned for support only until December 2016. IKEA kept to that commitment, shipping several small feature updates between April and December 2016 (adding meatballs, frying pans, a cat perspective, pencils, and catalogue pages). The final update arrived on December 2, 2016, and the developer explicitly confirmed in that post that it was "the final planned update for the small IKEA VR Experience." IKEA noted they would keep the app available on Steam as long as people continued playing, but made clear no further development was planned. In May 2017, IKEA released a separate, new experience — the IKEA VR Pancake Kitchen — on a different Steam page, which represents a successor product rather than continued development of this one. This game launched as a finished, scoped demo and has been in its completed state since December 2, 2016.
Evidence
Developer explicitly stated this is 'the final planned update for the small IKEA VR Experience,' confirming development is complete while keeping the app available on Steam.
Store description describes the game as a 'pilot/test' with planned support only until December 2016, establishing from launch that this was a time-limited experience.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
IKEA Communications AB
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
This is an experience where we expect you to spend about 5 minutes.
It is a pilot/test that we will support/update until December 2016 (new end date).
Put on your VR headset and prepare to explore our kitchen in full 3D.
Enjoy walking around and interacting with some parts of it just like you were there.
Instantly change the look and feel of the kitchen by selecting a different material finish.
Explore the kitchen from a child’s point of view or as a tall person.
Find the drawers that can be opened. Pick up a frying pan and place it on the stove.
Recycle the vegetable skins in the waste sorting station.
Try our “teleport” function.
This kitchen is very similar to a kitchen in the 2016 IKEA Catalogue, can you find it?
Find press release here:
Feedback:
We would love to get your input on what you would like us to change/add/create in this kitchen or in our next VR experience.
Send feedback to vrdevelopment@ikea.com
For best experience read below
For best experience the virtual floor have to match your physical floor. If not, the room will feel slightly to small or to big. Calibration instructions below. You also should set the IPD (distance between the centre of your eyes in millimeters) on the headset to your personal values.
Fine calibrate floor Height Calibration:
1. Put one of the hand controllers or HMD on the floor
2. Use PageUp/PageDown to move floor up or down 1 centimeter so the HMD/controllers rest on the floor
3. Press "S" on keyboard to save to next session
It is a pilot/test that we will support/update until December 2016 (new end date).
Put on your VR headset and prepare to explore our kitchen in full 3D.
Enjoy walking around and interacting with some parts of it just like you were there.
Instantly change the look and feel of the kitchen by selecting a different material finish.
Explore the kitchen from a child’s point of view or as a tall person.
Find the drawers that can be opened. Pick up a frying pan and place it on the stove.
Recycle the vegetable skins in the waste sorting station.
Try our “teleport” function.
This kitchen is very similar to a kitchen in the 2016 IKEA Catalogue, can you find it?
Find press release here:
Feedback:
We would love to get your input on what you would like us to change/add/create in this kitchen or in our next VR experience.
Send feedback to vrdevelopment@ikea.com
For best experience read below
For best experience the virtual floor have to match your physical floor. If not, the room will feel slightly to small or to big. Calibration instructions below. You also should set the IPD (distance between the centre of your eyes in millimeters) on the headset to your personal values.
Fine calibrate floor Height Calibration:
1. Put one of the hand controllers or HMD on the floor
2. Use PageUp/PageDown to move floor up or down 1 centimeter so the HMD/controllers rest on the floor
3. Press "S" on keyboard to save to next session
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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