After a year as a small-scale pilot program, Walmart’s virtual reality training program developed in partnership with STRIVR has officially begun a nationwide rollout. To this end, the retail giant has ordered over 17,000 Oculus Go headsets, which the OEM expects to deliver by the end of the year.
Walmart Acquires XR Startup To Augment Retail Shopping Experience
Nowhere is the transformation from digital to XR more obvious than in the retail, an industry that still leverages physical locations to both attract customers and sell inventory. And as tempting as it is to crown Amazon as the industry’s top innovator, most large retailers are now embracing emerging technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality in order to remain … Read More