Saturday, December 24, 2011

[niiitipa] Shopping online at the store

A store, with limited shelf space, offers a kiosk for additional online shopping in one corner of its store.  However, unlike online shopping at home, this is a step beyond.

As a single installation per store, using very powerful computers, graphics, networks, very large, high-resolution displays, the store attempts to capture technology perhaps 10 years down the road.  Perhaps gesture and speech recognition (perhaps there's a human on the other end!).  Imperceptible latency on all UI. No regular consumer can afford such a system, but for a store it might only be the equivalent of a month of property tax (and it will pay for itself with increased sales).

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