
José Machado
Jose Machado is Full Professor of the Department of Informatics, School of Engineering, University of Minho. He is at the…
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Transforming Sales in Healthcare: The Impact of Augmented Reality and Spatial Computing on the Medical Equipment Industry
Lately, there has been a surge of interest in spatial computing, which combines AR, VR and other technologies, especially in the health industry. While a lot has been done on its applications in such clinical aspects as surgeries and patient experience enhancement, there is less info on its application in medical equipment marketing in hospitals. This paper presents the current trends and practices in the use of networks of immersive technology in marketing medical devices. Besides surveying the secondary literature, the present investigation examines three case studies in this sector. Nowadays, most applications are not focused on promoting medical devices, making it easy to achieve innovation in this field mainly by utilising immersive technology, which has been developed for other industries.
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Immersive Shopping Experiences: The Role of Augmented Reality in E-Commerce
Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that is emerging in the mobile world, more specifically on smartphones. In this sense, new mobile devices have been launched and several studies on this technology already exist. However, regarding the current era, it will still be necessary to determine the main difficulties and challenges of this technology in electronic commerce. This article aims to investigate and identify in studies with a high impact factor in the literature what the next steps could be as well as factors to mitigate difficulties in the future.
Spatial Computing and Augmented Reality — Challenges in E-Commerce
Spatial computing will undoubtedly be one of the pillars of e-commerce in the future, with the aim of combining augmented reality technology with a Head-Mounted Display device to create an immersive and augmented environment. Thus, the shopping experience as well as the user experience for the applications adopting these technologies will have to be studied. This study aims to deepen the literature on this topic, as well as trying to ascertain what will be the main trends and factors that could influence these types of technologies and studies in the coming years.
Review for Augmented Reality Shopping Application for Mobile Systems
The evolution of e-commerce has, in recent times, made a significant advance largely due to the forced digital transformation and to Sars-cov-2. Thus, augmented reality ( AR ) technology is increasingly being adopted by companies either to increase brand value or to improve the shopping experience for their consumers. This work aims to present a comparative study between some shopping applications using AR, augmented reality shopping applications ( ARSAs ), which are carried out in stores or online. The applications were studied in articles in Open Access format and the focus was to understand what their conclusions were as well as the problems and trends of future research toward this type of technologies.

