Xiaomi seems to be developer an AR-based shopping navigation system
Xiaomi may be one of the world’s best-known smartphone manufacturers, but this company is much more than that. The company releases all kinds of products, including electric scooters, smart scales, battery banks, earphones, smartwatches, backpacks, and so much more. The company’s product portfolio is truly vast, and Xiaomi is constantly looking how to improve its offerings. We may see electric cars from the company down the line, so this new patent isn’t exactly surprising. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are becoming more and more popular. More and more companies are trying to figure out how to best utilize it. Well, this new patent is quite interesting.
This should be able to improve your shopping experience
Xiaomi seems to want to improve users’ shopping experience this way, by saving you some time. This navigation system should be able to provide you with the exact location of the product you’re looking for. So, for example, if you’re in a huge store, and you have a list of products you’re looking for, this system should be able to pinpoint the exact location of every single one. That way, you can simply walk directly to each of them, and save some time in the process. This technology is likely meant to be used with AR glasses, which the company teased a while back. This technology will be far more useful if you’re not in said store every day, as you likely know exactly where things are located. There is so much more that can be done with this tech. You may be able to get the ingredients of each food product, for example, or specifications of a laptop you’re interested in, and so on.
