Vae on 30/5/2016 at 22:36
[video=youtube;yAuiXhJPnr8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAuiXhJPnr8[/video]
heywood on 31/5/2016 at 00:09
Myer, the land of $90 jeans and $80 dress shirts and ties. What they need is a really good sales flyer, not a VR experience. Wouldn't this idea work better for a pure online retailer?
scumble on 31/5/2016 at 16:27
The one benefit I can think of over real shops is that there won't be numerous slow people getting in the way, or couples having debates for half an hour about some item when you'd like to check something out quickly...
Medlar on 1/6/2016 at 08:44
A step too far methinks, there is no advantage.
henke on 1/6/2016 at 09:06
VR fanboy tho I am I gotta agree with Medlar. This is pretty gimmicky with little real value. Especially since it's a simple cardboard viewer, thus no positional tracking, so it's not like you can lean in and look at details or walk around the thing. In the end it's not much better than looking at a spinning 3D model of the object on a website, but with an interface that's much slower to navigate than a website.
Doesn't mean VR couldn't be used to improve the online shopping experience, of course. I think a showroom for clothes using the Vive could be pretty cool. It could simply display different outfits on manequins you could walk around, or even outfit an avatar of roughly your height and build so you could see the clothes on yourself when you look down.
Yakoob on 3/6/2016 at 16:34
Aye Henke got the right idea. If they 3d scan the items and let you actually play around with them it would be really neat. Basically the benefit of checking a product out without having to go to the store to do it. It could be one advantage over traditional web stores like Amazon.
Quote Posted by scumble
The one benefit I can think of over real shops is that there won't be numerous slow people getting in the way, or couples having debates for half an hour about some item when you'd like to check something out quickly...
Isn't that what Amazon already does?
