This weekly blog should be interesting for anyone involved in e-commerce and online marketing either as academic or professional. The blog focuses on strategic and commercial rather than technical issues of E-Commerce and on the perspectives of the Marketing in a global, digital and Social Media dominated marketplace. In exceptional cases some issues of more general interest might be also discussed.
August 7, 2009
Virtual Touch and virtual Scent: Next steps in Virtual Reality?
Looking for killer apps? This can be the Touchable Holography developed by researchers of the University of Tokyo. If this really works (and it seems from the YouTube videos that this is an interesting area of research) and in combination with virtual scent could bring the e-shop a step closer to the consumer who wants to touch and smell before buying. I will keep following and update on this.