{"id":406762,"date":"2017-09-25T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/25\/swarovski-vr-shopping-app\/21|23221689"},"modified":"2017-09-25T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:00","slug":"swarovskis-vr-shopping-app-is-glittery-virtual-decadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/swarovskis-vr-shopping-app-is-glittery-virtual-decadence\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarovski&#8217;s VR shopping app is glittery virtual decadence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2keA2XVhMv4\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not virtual reality causing your head to spin, it&#8217;s the ludicrously priced $5,500 vase planted across the room. You can even buy it on the spot, using your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/02\/25\/mastercard-masterpass-payments\/\">MasterPass<\/a> account. Is this the future of shopping, now? Not likely. It&#8217;s not as cool as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/11\/nike-makers-experience-studio-presto-x\/\">Nike&#8217;s<\/a> in-store projection tech that assists in designing your next pair of sneakers. Nor is it as useful as Ikea and Edmunds&#8217; respective apps that help with practical issues (like personalizing large and costly items). We doubt anyone is losing sleep wondering whether a $600 Swarovski <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atelierswarovski.com\/glaciarium-collection-nightlight\">night light<\/a> will fit on their bedside table. But, if you&#8217;re still keen, the Atelier Swarovski Virtual Showroom app hits iOS and Android in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] No, that&#8217;s not virtual reality causing your head to spin, it&#8217;s the ludicrously priced $5,500 vase planted across the room. You can even buy it on the spot, using your MasterPass account. Is this the future of shopping, now? Not likely. It&#8217;s not as cool as Nike&#8217;s in-store projection tech that assists in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-406762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}