ADVENT OF AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE IN RETAIL AND ONLINE SHOPPING AND ITS INFLUENCING SIGNIFICANCE IN FUTURE

Authors

  • Syed Ali Fathima S J Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Shankar S Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Surendiran B Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India
  • Saranya K Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20319/mijst.2019.52.3547

Keywords:

Augmented Reality (AR), E-Commerce, Retail Shopping, Online Shopping, Visualization, Smart Phone, Virtual Environment, ShopAR

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) is a trending technology that augments or superimposes an image generated by a computer system virtually into the real world environment for the user’s viewpoint using a smart phone or other hand held devices. AR shows recent advancements in the shopping domain with various implementation trails and refinement. The simplicity and flexibility in online shopping where people stay in their own place and do shopping brought a great challenge to retail shopping environment today. Retail stores are now struggling a lot to bring in the customers and the foot traffic has been greatly reduced due to which online sales are boosting and retail sales are stalling. This necessitates to bring new technological innovations to offline shopping to attract people. With the use of AR, it is possible to merge digital component to physical products in the store to stimulate the engagement of the shopping experience with more fun and joy. On the other hand, in the online shopping, though user reviews and product showcase aids the customers to analyze the quality, look and feel of diverse products, the buyer still cannot see how exactly the product fits in a real environment or how it works. Here plays AR a vital role in online shopping where it uses animations and visualization techniques to offer more value to their shoppers virtually aiding to see exactly the look of the product in user environment. This paper explains the advancement of AR in both retail and online shopping of various product domains with an implementation model of ShopAR for Online shopping and AR significance in near future.

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Published

2019-08-19

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Fathima S J, S. A., Shankar, S., Surendiran, . B., & Saranya, K. (2019). ADVENT OF AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE IN RETAIL AND ONLINE SHOPPING AND ITS INFLUENCING SIGNIFICANCE IN FUTURE . MATTER: International Journal of Science and Technology, 5(2), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.20319/mijst.2019.52.3547

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