The world's best store designers and visual merchandisers are taking advantage of virtual reality to propel their brands in retail. This presentation provides 10 things that store designers and visual merchandisers should know about Virtual Reality.

1. DESIGN VISUALIZATION
Virtual Reality - Store Design and Visual Merchandising:
10 things you should know

2. R E TA I L D E S I G N & P R E S E N TAT I O N T O D AY I S D I F F I C U LT !
• Fast Paced
• Complex
• Many stakeholders reviewing the designs,
including executives
• Needs to be fresh and innovative
• Needs to increase presence in wholesale accounts
• Needs to connect with distracted shoppers
• Needs to drive purchase
• Needs to be a complete branded experience
• Needs to support for multiple categories
• Needs to to be omni channel
• Needs to scale from small to big, globally
• Needs to be on budget
• Needs to be on schedule

3. H O W D O Y O U S U C C E E D ?
By communicating your vision, your idea and concepts in the
most effective way…

4. V I S U A L LY

5. When presenting your designs to stakeholders, executives
and partners, you have choices including:
1) Rough sketches, photos, material samples and a lot of verbal explanation
2) Photorealistic renders
3) Animation of the store
4) Virtual Reality

6. 1. Virtual Reality is NOT some clunky, helmet based solution
that was a 90’s novelty.
2. Tech giants Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Facebook, Intel,
Sony and others are investing Billions in bringing VR to the
mainstream. The technology works and it is really amazing!
3. It is estimated that VR will become a $20B industry within 5
years. From games to movies to sales tools, VR can provide a
new paradigm for how we experience things.
10 Things to know about VR

7. 4. VR is the ultimate visual communications tool. It allows
the user to interact and view an environment in 3
dimensions, 360 degrees.
5. VR provides the ability to walk around inside an
environment before its built. VR also has the ability to be
interactive, so you can add a layer of UI anywhere that you
want.
6. VR can run on today’s smartphones or on a PC. Note
that headset/goggles are NOT required if used on a PC.

8. 7. VR is NOT cost prohibitive. In fact, it some instances it
can be equal or less than traditional renders.
8. If done by experts, VR can be photorealistic. At
PixelPool, we don’t sacrifice image quality with VR.
9. VR provides an emotional connection and experience
with an environment that still renders cannot.
10. VR is being used by some of the world’s top apparel
and retail brands TODAY.

9. Want to see a demo?
I would love to show you and your team an in person demo next time I’m
in your city. Just let me know what days you have free and we’ll get
something on the calendar.
Josh Hansen
Retail Brand Director
josh@pixel-pool.com

10. PixelPool is a Design Visualization Agency.
We help creatives, designers and retailers by making their ideas, concepts,
dreams and projects come to life visually.
We make you and your brand experience look incredible.

11. RETAIL VISUALIZATION
Fashion retailer store design
Experiential design
Sell In Tools
Brand Experience design
Product marketing
Product advertising animation
VM within retail design teams
VM within sell in teams
3D Retail Visualization/Renders
Virtual Reality
Scanning styled assets
Benefit story videos
Product packaging
Scanned assets for real time
Customization configurators
BRAND VISUALIZATION

12. CONTACT US:
WEB
WWW.PIXEL-POOL.COM
JOSH HANSEN
RETAIL BRAND DIRECTOR
JOSH@PIXEL-POOL.COM