is that the customer can’t operate it themselves. Although it makes things easier by visualizing, it can be of inconvenience to get a retail salesperson to come help you. It can be of harm to the customer as the store doesn’t have restriction on use of the Oculus. This can be a problem as people are prone to becoming addicted to living in that world.
2d.To give the experience of choosing your design and trying it out before going home, Lowe’s holoroom combines an iPad, that is kept in the store, a kitchen and bathroom design app with an Oculus for virtual viewing experience. when users or customers are satisfied with what they chose, designs can be transmitted to YouTube 360 to view at home with a Google cardboard, which you will receive from the store. Lowe’s Holoroom is powered by Marxent Visual commerce, the virtual products platform. Visual commerce allows Lowe’s to manage thousands of stock keeping units, as virtual 3D objects with their correlating metadata. Since it comes with the ability to occupy a 3D space with products in Lowe’s, Lowe’s shoppers can design their preferred bathroom or kitchen and actually walk into it, share it and buy the products chosen by them to turn their design into reality. There is some uneasiness about security because data is collected about your picks and choices. It’s a sensitive topic as one of the main concern today is privacy and people don’t want their data shared even if it’s for a better experience.