Dyson is Actually Building that Viral AR Vacuuming App, But Only for iPhone [Video]

If you’ve been wondering when you could finally gamify your vacuuming routine after seeing one of the more viral AR videos on social mendia recently, Dyson has you covered, because it’s actually making the thing for iPhone and one of its patently pricey stick vacuums.

Shopify’s Principal XR Engineer Daniel Beauchamp is no stranger to prototyping weird and wild AR/VR input schemes, although you might be more familiar with his latest take on AR cleaning which made the rounds on social media earlier this year, which uses a Quest Pro with a Touch controller attached to the ad hoc ‘spatial vacuuming’ setup.

Spatial Vacuuming

Never miss a spot again! pic.twitter.com/VJlHaY9XIJ

— Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) January 23, 2024

Now, it seems Dyson has caught wind of just how useful such an AR app would be by ostensibly introducing its own take on Beauchamp’s viral prototype.

Called Dyson CleanTrace, the AR vacuuming system is a mobile-based setup, which critically doesn’t use any sort of …