Digital Virtual Reality Shopping: Is it the Future?

However, with shopping, you skip the experience of moving to a shop and picking things up.  Enter virtual reality shopping, which attempts to provide you also the experience of being at a shop as well as the ease of internet shopping.

Folks are already shopping via virtual reality, but it is still in its starting phases.  In 2016, China’s Alibaba started a virtual reality experience which can be retrieved using a virtual reality headset, Purchase +.  With, a shop could walk around, look through things, and add items to your carttime.  Based on Vice, an hour had attempted

To utilize virtual reality shopping, you’re going to require a virtual reality headset, which might vary from a $10 Google Cardboard to tens of thousands of bucks for the Oculus Rift.  There’s normally a shopping cart by supplying your credit card information and you are able to purchase items.

At May 2016, Ikea permit users design their kitchens.  The HTC Vive was used by Audi in showrooms to cars.

You can wander and in.  You can choose objects marked with dots that are floating, revealing the description and price of the item.  Which means remind yourself to hunt for it and you will need to zoom in on the labels, the majority of the furniture is not marked, however.

Smaller businesses like Gatsby, a startup that produces virtual reality shops, are also seeking to make virtual reality shopping encounters.

“We are really hoping to get near what it is like there, and that we need it to be quite romantic,” said Anastasia Cifuentes, co-founder of Gatsby.  “All of the small details on the way you move, we are really focusing on the way to get that just perfect.”  Gatsby was experimenting with virtual reality for over 6 months but expects to start a program in the autumn.

The program is still in development, but after the program is completed, Gatsby expects to use photographs of rooms and objects.  Gatsby is going to be free to everybody–you need some thing, such as a Google Cardboard, to see through it.

“There is an efficacy variable that being online fulfills, but we have lost something in travel to that, that is only having the ability to support the item,” explained Cifuentes.  “There are still things we have to touch and see that we must visit the shop for, such as furniture”

Virtual reality does not completely copy the in-person shopping experience, but it is getting there.  It is also becoming more affordable and more accessible: a Google Cardboard set to get it done plus today you require your smartphone.

Kelly

I’m Kelly Hood! I blog about tech, how to use it, and what you should know. I love spending time with my family and sharing stories of the day with them.