Month: September 2020

Facebook to produce Smart Glasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban

Posted on by Shravan Rajpurohit

September 28, 2020

Early in September 2020, Facebook has revealed their partnership and collaboration with Ray-Ban to release their first pair of Smart Glasses.

“After spending time with Luxottica (makers of Ray-Ban) team and visiting their factory, I knew that they were the right partner for us to bring the best technology together with the best glasses – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook Connect Livestream. ”

Also, it was revealed by Facebook, that this release of Smart Glass will be a single step to their overall AR (Augmented Reality) works. And which now will also be an experimental research prototype known and called as Project Aria.

These glasses will not be for sale, now. This September, Facebook employees will wear this Project Aria glasses as a research model in private and public spaces also at homes in-order to help and form the development in contextualised Augmented Reality. This Smart Glasses will be capable in capturing audio, video, eye-tracking and location data to help in developing its upcoming AR Smart Glass.

Collaboration with Luxottica, will bring in the world-class brand catalogue to the first truly fashionable smart glasses. This Smart Glasses will be a part of its larger expedition into the world of Augmented Reality.

The Intellify, is eagerly waiting to let our creative heads get going with this Futuristic development making sure this collaboration reach maximum brand houses and their customers. Stay Tuned.

Shop now on Instagram with Augmented Reality

Posted on by Darshak Doshi

September 24, 2020

To Experience Instagram AR Filters with shopping functionality, exclusively for Try-On product will be a great futuristic engagement in 2021. Instagram is expanding their push into Online Shopping allowing users to Try-On products digitally before they buy it with the help of Augmented Reality on new Spark AR studio.

Spark AR will allow users and brands to experience a huge fleet of products direct selling and purchasing with the integration of Augmented Reality solution into it.

How initially Instagram came up with custom augmented reality filters, similarly they are testing a new AR Shopping feature with selected brands like Warby Parker, MAC cosmetics, Ray-Ban and NARS cosmetics. Instagram will make it available for more products over time.

Instagram AR shopping will also help users to try out the products, buy it, and also share with the friends and groups directly through the same platform. Instagram is such an important platform for product discovery, particularly in beauty – says the expert. Traditionally, Instagram impacts and affects the shopping channel whether it is happening online or offline.

Steps to use Instagram AR Shopping feature –

 

  1. Select the product from the Brands uploaded stories or post
  2. Chose “Try It On” option, displayed on the product page or in the product description
  3. Selecting “Try It On”, users will be redirected to Instagram camera to try the AR filter effect of the listed and chosen product
  4. While trying the product AR filter, the screen will be displaying an “Add to Cart” option
  5. With adding your product into the cart, you will be allowed to check-out with your payment procedure in your Instagram shopping page

 

Instagram is already an established platform for brands to promote and advertise their products. This Instagram Shopping feature with Augmented Reality, will arrive with an added advantage to open a massive traffic towards new brands and products. People who are actively engaged into Instagram, this upcoming AR Shopping feature having Augmented Reality effect to try-on the products, will be a dream come true.

The Intellify, is actively participating in the race of developing such a wonderful, engaging and interactive Augmented Reality solution for brands and their users. With an added exciting AR Shopping experience, Instagram will be even better in capturing one’s attention.

Shopify and Augmented Reality: Unlock the Magic of E-commerce

Posted on by Shravan Rajpurohit

Summary
Shopify AR revolutionizes e-commerce by enabling immersive augmented reality experiences. It allows shoppers to visualize products in 3D, enhancing confidence in their purchases. Businesses can leverage this technology to improve customer engagement with realistic and interactive product displays. The Intellify provides seamless Shopify AR integration to create unparalleled shopping experiences.

Introduction

The e-commerce landscape is evolving, and platforms like Shopify lead the charge with cutting-edge features. Shopify AR (augmented reality) is an innovation that enables online shoppers to interact with products in real time using 3D technology.

This revolutionary feature bridges the gap between virtual and physical shopping, offering customers an enhanced sense of product size, scale, and detail. As augmented reality trends continue to gain momentum, Shopify provides an inclusive, accessible toolkit for businesses to adopt this transformative technology seamlessly.

At The Intellify, we specialize in augmented reality app development and ensure smooth Shopify AR integration to help businesses deliver a remarkable shopping experience.

How Shopify AR Enhances Shopping Experiences

1. Immersive Product Visualization

Shopify AR allows customers to view products in 3D, offering a 360° perspective. Shoppers can see how items fit into their space and gain confidence in their purchase decisions. This feature particularly benefits industries like furniture, fashion, and home décor.

2. Real-Time Interactivity Without Apps

This web-powered AR feature makes augmented reality more accessible to everyday shoppers.

3. Customizable AR Tools for Businesses

The toolkit includes features like a 3D Warehouse app for model storage and a marketplace for 3D modeling partners, making AR integration hassle-free for merchants.

Read Also: Augmented Reality Trends

Shopify: The Ultimate Online Selling Platform

Shopify is a leading platform for creating and managing online stores, offering businesses a streamlined way to promote, sell, and ship products. With its easy-to-use interface and low startup costs, Shopify has become a favorite among brands in the e-commerce industry.

Key Features of Shopify

Shopify provides businesses with powerful tools that simplify e-commerce management:

  • Customizable Websites and Blogs: Create personalized online stores tailored to your brand.
  • Unlimited Bandwidth and Inventory: Handle large customer data and product listings without restrictions.
  • Payment Gateway Support: Seamlessly integrates with all major payment gateways.
  • 24/7 Customer Support: Reliable assistance for users anytime.

By integrating these features, Shopify ensures businesses can build efficient, user-friendly online stores.

What is Shopify AR?

Shopify AR (augmented reality) transforms the shopping experience by providing real-time interactivity and product engagement. This advanced feature allows shoppers to view products in 3D with a 360° display, giving them a sense of size, scale, and detail.

Benefits of Shopify AR for Shoppers

  • Enhanced Visualization: View products in real-world settings for better decision-making.
  • Increased Confidence: Realistic 3D displays help buyers trust their choices.
  • Browser-Based Access: Accessible via Safari on iOS devices without additional app installations.

The result is a more engaging and immersive shopping experience, bridging the gap between physical and online retail.

The Intellify’s Expertise in Shopify AR

At The Intellify, we specialize in augmented reality app development for Shopify stores. Our seamless integration of Shopify AR ensures businesses can deliver cutting-edge shopping experiences that captivate customers.

Explore how Shopify AR works in action by checking out our demo video: Augmented Reality for E-commerce

How will Shopify AR be helping shoppers?

  • Shoppers can get a real idea with a sense of size, scale, and details about their product choice.
  • Shopify AR allows this merger of new technology to display realistic, engaging, and interactive versions of users’ products.

Web-powered augmented reality represents a stimulating rise towards making the AR experience readily available to everyday shoppers through mobile browsers without the need to install mobile applications on the device.

Shopify AR provides businesses with an accessible toolkit for creating their own AR experience. It also includes a marketplace of 3D modeling partners and a 3D Warehouse app to store the models.

As AR shopping’s capabilities continue to unfold, The Intellify is actively working to make more accessible and valuable solutions and experiences available to our merchants and their customers.

Conclusion

By integrating AR features into their stores, businesses can provide immersive, engaging, and interactive shopping experiences.

As augmented reality trends continue to grow, partnering with a trusted software development company like The Intellify ensures flawless AR implementation. Contact us to explore how we can help you leverage augmented reality app development to elevate your business and delight your customers.

Let’s build a future-ready shopping experience together. Contact Us to get started today!

Let’s scan and learn, things we are fascinated about.

Posted on by Jalaj Shah

September 16, 2020

Object Detection Based AR allows users to scan and acquire knowledge about the three dimensional structures and objects in real world. This is simply based on the pre-recorded map of the object. Object Tracking and Recognition is one of the major feature enabled Augmented Reality solution. With this solution, tracking, recognising and augmenting feature-rich rooms, scenes and larger objects is made simpler and easier.

The Intellify, is happy to share an example with you over platform to see and study how the Object Based Detection Augmented Reality solution works in real world. https://youtu.be/f6wKNMuXIoY will give you a proper and clear idea to understand the concept. How scanning a silver coin in real world, gets a full-featured knight to populate on the coin, who plays several different animations.

Object Based Detection Augmented Reality is an ideal solution for augmenting Products, Industrial Machineries, Historical Monuments, Art Pieces and more such larger objects and scenes. With this functionality, users will be able to learn, study and know about monuments, places, museums, etc. they are traveling to. Also industries and brands will be able to make products, services and machineries an easy piece of object to understand, study and work-on.

How can user make the most of it?

  • Object Based Detection solution helps users in recognizing and tracking down the objects of any colour, shape or size by scanning it live with just a smart phone device. Scanning the objects, users will be able to acquire all details about the particular object. This object can be any tool, instrument, monuments, artifacts or even any tourist spot.
  • Big industries with manufacturing and production units, can use this Object Based Detection AR solution to train their workers about the work process, features and functionalities of the machineries they will be working on or with.
  • Industries like Tourism and Travels, can utilize this solution to make their customer know about the destination they have chosen to travel. With this pandemic situation all over, these industries can increase their customer engagement with this solution, a solution that might not even have crossed in anyone’s dream. Exploring the tourist spot users want to virtually.
  • Remote assistance is another one benefit which can be attained with this Object Recognition solution. Users can scan the objects or products they have issues with and can interact with the assistance live sharing the issues and getting the solution to fix it, in real time. This is the future AR and its solution, but it has already started to get tried and tested for customers and big brands.

This Augmented Reality solution reduces manpower in terms of machine learning and guidance. Also users will now be accessed to Virtual guides while traveling. Education sector will be blessed too, by making students learn about the history and science virtually with the help of Object Based Detection Augmented Reality Solution.

Are you excited to try out this solution for your brands? The Intellify, will be happy to share a call with you and serve you the solution to increase your user engagement.

Travel the World with 2-Way Virtual Tickets

Posted on by Shravan Rajpurohit

Sepeember 12, 2020

One of the greatest strength the Virtual Reality is allowing the user to experience, is the feeling of â€śBeing There”.

VR (Virtual Reality) in Tourism has such a strong capability to place the user in the scene, and make it easier for them to imagine themselves in the Virtual environment of a particular tourism spot they want to be in. With 360 VR, the solution focuses on the real world rather than CGI (Computer Generated Imagery), which makes the experience perfect in favour of the Tourism Industry. Here, it is very important to show users a real location rather than a mocked-up image or a video.

10 ways how Virtual Reality can satisfy the wanderlust –

  1. Download free tourism VR applications
  2. Get a ride for free
  3. Wander the globe with Google Street Views
  4. LAP your luxury via Virtual stays(hotels) tour
  5. Relive your own travels
  6. Watch live webcams showing Tourism Attractions
  7. Check-up on a Zoo animals, Historical monuments, Museums, etc. virtually, online
  8. Stroll through cityscapes virtually
  9. Experience a virtual dive
  10. Get therapeutic sounds of mountain streams, winds, bushes and rivers

Virtual Reality within Tourism is expanding and evolving at a good pace. With VR Headsets, the users are typically provided a realistic experience. Travel agencies, offer in-store virtual travel experience to clients. This virtual exercise turns out to be more interactive, fun-filled engaging experience for clients, which builds even more stronger and trustworthy connect between clients and the agencies. It’s a never-forgetting experience.

Benefits of Virtual Reality in Tourism –

  • It allows user to imagine themselves at their favourite travel spots
  • Virtual Reality solution enables the user to explore a spot with their own convenience
  • This solution and technology helps in creating unique brand engagement
  • VR allows Travel agencies to stand-out from the crowd
  • This majorly provides travel experience to those who can’t travel by themselves

The Intellify, will be happy to make you live this experience. Our only motive is to create a solution for you, which increases your brand engagements and eases you with experiencing life you have only dreamt of in real world.

One stop solution for Smart Indoor Navigation

Posted on by Shravan Rajpurohit

September 08, 2020

With GPS you have always got your navigation easy, but outdoors. What about Indoor navigation? Here AR Way Finding solution arrives as a hero in the fleet of Augmented Reality world to make users Indoor navigation easy and accessible just with one application downloaded into the device.

AR Way Finding solution serves users as a Virtual Guide, as a real time navigation tool. This solution makes easy navigation with a super-imposed pathway solution through application camera.

Here with an application installed in the device, user can navigate their way around in Indoor and Outdoor space. Indoor places like universities, office buildings, airports, shopping malls, multiplexes, healthcare centres, etc. can be easily navigated. We are used to smart phones and luxury that phone provides, why not to get hands on with something that might help users with their daily transit inside offices, malls, hospitals, airports and similar massive buildings!

The animated characters in the navigation application, helps the users to experience an interactive, engaging and fun navigating experience. Wherein the characters might pop-up and talk to you, direct you and also sometimes narrate you the story about the place you walk-by. This AR Way Finding solution has features that help different users in many different ways, like

  • Students and Professors can use this application to get a right navigation to classrooms, libraries, staff rooms, auditoriums and other spaces in the campus. This is a major help hand to newbies in the campus as a virtual guide. With AR Way Finding solution, users will face no difficulties in finding their location and also don’t have to be dependent on any other people to guide them.
  • Employees will get an easy walk-through to their new working place. This application will help them to easily navigate to their working desk. Also this application will reduce the stress of employers from taking out time and giving a premises tour to the new joinees.
  • Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Attendants can get an easy access to the navigation of the medical building. In emergency too this application is a boon to every users to find the way to their wards.

As above listed few of the examples, this AR Way Finding solution helps each and every user to easily navigate with an immersive engaging and interactive experience.

Why is Virtual Shopping the new buzz?

Posted on by Darshak Doshi

September 04, 2020

Virtual Product Try-On is an Augmented Reality solution, which helps users to get through an immersive virtual shopping experience. With this Pandemic situation in entire world, users more get inclined towards Virtual Shopping, and hence brands have a chance to acquire a massive market with integrating Virtual Product Try-On solution to make their customers shopping experience more engaging.

Virtual Shopping with Augmented Reality solutions is the next big thing coming up; it’s now too. Virtual Product Try-On solution can be easily integrated by any brands to their idea of expanding their customer reach. This solution provides an immersive experience where brands can enter an alternate reality populated by ones and zeroes, pixels and the imaginary.

Here the users are allowed to try the products before they proceed with checking out options. Different try-on’s possible with Virtual Product Try-On solutions are –

 

  • Try-on Furnitures & Appliances
    The user can here using the virtual product try-on application camera scans any surface area in their environment and the product pops-up. Any product in furniture or home and office appliances. User can try the same and get an idea if it looks good, and if they are happy with the product they can proceed with the purchasing.
  • Try-on Fashion products (Apparels, Footwear, Jewelleries, Glasses, etc.)
    User scanning the surface a mannequin pops-up with different outfits, here the user also gets the chance to experience how the outfit, footwear, glasses and jewelleries will look on them. They can try multiple products and as they like any of it they can direct themselves to the buying window.
  • Try-on Watches
    Scanning the marker Image on your wrist with application camera, users here can try-on various watches and see which one they want to buy and get for themselves.
  • Try-on Make-up and Beauty products
    Different brands, shades, sizes and colours. User can use all of them as a try-on product with the help of virtual try-on solution and get a check on how do they look and which one to buy.

Ecommerce sites with making most of WebAR

Virtual Product Try-on comes with a good benefit for both brands as well as the customers. Both here can get a very time saving technology integrated to their routines and also it makes the experience hassle free.

User can try this application at any location. Be it their own house, office, in middle of any transit or even in the shopping mall or product outlet.

This Virtual Product Try-on also comes up with a new and exciting feature. This feature helps users to try-on the product before purchasing and share it with their friends or family to take an opinion via social platforms.

Do you have any idea or plans to get this solution for your usage or brand? The Intellify, will be happy to deliver you the quality making your wish come true with the help of our expert creative developers.

AR or VR? How to know, when and what to be chosen?

Posted on by Jalaj Shah

Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality: Which One Suits Your Needs?

In today’s digital landscape, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality App Development (VR) have emerged as revolutionary technologies, transforming how brands engage with customers. AR and VR offer immersive experiences, but they do so in distinct ways, each with capabilities, benefits, and limitations.

Let’s explore how these technologies can redefine customer service, product experience, and brand interaction.

Understanding Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality enhances the real-world environment with digital overlays such as images, videos, or interactive elements. It allows users to experience a blended reality where the physical world is augmented by digital enhancements. In contrast, Virtual Reality completely immerses the user in a simulated environment, cutting off physical surroundings for a fully virtual experience.

Example: In Virtual Reality, you can interact with a cow in a virtual field, fully immersed in the digital environment. Meanwhile, in Augmented Reality, you might see a digital cow pop out from a scanned image, blending seamlessly with the physical world.

Key Differences Between AR and VR

Feature Augmented Reality (AR) Virtual Reality (VR)
Experience Enhances real-world settings Creates a fully simulated digital world
Physical Environment Requires physical surroundings Isolates from the physical environment
Hardware Works on smartphones, tablets, AR glasses Needs VR headsets and controllers
Use Cases Retail, healthcare, navigation, gaming Gaming, training, simulations, entertainment

Both technologies aim to deliver immersive experiences, but their applications and use cases cater to different needs. While AR thrives in environments that require a connection to the real world, VR excels in scenarios where complete immersion is critical.

The Future of AR and VR

The future of AR and VR is incredibly promising, with rapid advancements and increasing commercial applications. Industries like retail, healthcare, education, and entertainment are already harnessing these technologies for enhanced engagement.

In the next few years, AR and VR are expected to become a one-stop solution for businesses, offering engaging and interactive digital solutions with minimal investment.

Why Choose AR or VR?

  • Augmented Reality (AR) is the ideal choice if your project demands interaction with the physical environment.
  • If your goal is to create a fully immersive digital experience free from real-world distractions, Virtual Reality (VR) is your go-to technology.

Let’s Explore AR and VR Solutions Together

At The Intellify, we deliver tailored AR and VR solutions that align with your conceptual ideas. Whether you’re looking to create an interactive augmented experience or a fully immersive virtual environment, our team guides you every step of the way.

Let’s discuss how these technologies can transform your business and create a unique customer experience. Together, we can identify the right solution—AR or VR—to bring your vision to life.

Conclusion

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) offer incredible opportunities to transform user experiences and business solutions. Choosing the right technology depends on your project’s requirements—whether it’s enhancing the real world or creating an immersive virtual environment.

At The Intellify, we provide expert guidance to help you select and implement the best solution. Ready to innovate? Contact us to bring your vision to life with cutting-edge AR and VR technologies!

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