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- Title
Immersive and desktop virtual reality in virtual fashion stores: a comparison between shopping experiences.
- Authors
Ricci, Marina; Evangelista, Alessandro; Di Roma, Annalisa; Fiorentino, Michele
- Abstract
With the high growth and prosperity of e-commerce, the retail industry needs to explore new technologies that improve digital shopping experiences. In the current technological scenario, Virtual Reality (VR) emerges as a tool and an opportunity for enhancing shopping activities, especially for the fashion industry. This study explores whether using Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) technologies enhances the shopping experience in the fashion industry compared to Desktop Virtual Reality (DVR). A within-subject experiment was carried out involving a sample of 60 participants who completed a simulated shopping experience. In the first mode (DVR), a desktop computer setup was used to test the shopping experience using a mouse and keyboard for navigation. The second mode (IVR) exploited a Head-Mounted Display (HMD), and controllers, that allowed navigation while seated on a workstation to avoid sickness. Participants had to find a bag in the virtual shop and explore its features until they were ready to purchase it. Post-hoc measures of time duration of the shopping experience, hedonic and utilitarian values, user experience, and cognitive load were compared. Results showed that participants experienced higher hedonism and utilitarianism in the IVR shop compared to DVR. The cognitive load was comparable in both modes, while user experience was higher in IVR. In addition, the time duration of the shopping experience was higher in IVR, where users stayed immersed and enjoyed it for longer. This study has implications for fashion industry research, as the use of IVR can potentially lead to novel shopping patterns by enhancing the shopping experience.
- Subjects
VIRTUAL reality; ONLINE shopping; SHOPPING; USER experience; COGNITIVE load; HEAD-mounted displays
- Publication
Virtual Reality, 2023, Vol 27, Issue 3, p2281
- ISSN
1359-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10055-023-00806-y