Design a Room with Amazon’s New AR Shopping Tool
Several home furnishing retailers now let you try out a piece of furniture in augmented reality, placing it in your home to see if it fits with your space and decor. The problem is, the AR …
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Shop in Augmented Reality? Now You Can Through Apple
Despite Apple taking its time to develop AR Glasses, you can now shop in augmented reality through the company’s Quick Look platform. The AR platform has been around since 2018 and gives you the option of …
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Walmart’s New VR Experience – Selling Merchandise in a Parking Lot
The latest Walmart VR experience is not designed to help their employees cope with Black Friday crowds, but sell products. And it’s a sign that the future of retail lays in immersive experiences. Walmart has teamed …
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Will the Amazon VR kiosks reinvent retail shopping?
A new Amazon VR experience opened this week as the online retailing giant set up virtual reality kiosks in shopping malls to promote its upcoming Prime Day. As VentureBeat notes, it’s significantly more than what you’d expect …
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Ikea Pilots Virtual Reality Shopping
Want to use virtual reality to remodel your kitchen? Ikea has jumped on the VR bandwagon with their new game-like app, the appropriately named Gameplay. As TechCrunch notes, you won’t exactly be blown away by the …
Virtual Reality Shopping – The Future of Retail?
Now that Black Friday is here, what about virtual reality shopping? Could VR end the madness of the Thanksgiving crowds rushing into stores and fighting over deals? Or at least enhance our customary retail experience? Let’s look at …