The shoes you wear can look very different when you are an avatar.
Trends in product design: Spatial computing will change design forever
As the idea of the Metaverse, or a shared online social space, takes hold, product designers are being freed from the constraints of the real world. With companies developing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications, everything from homes to clothing can get a virtual makeover.
“Changing designs becomes as easy as changing what people see through AR headsets, making iterations faster and more efficient,” Benny So, head of communications at METABRGE, a digital store, told Lifewire in an email interview.
How you look in the Metaverse may be just as important as it is in the real world. Currently, the most common products designed for the Metaverse are human avatars or holograms of people and virtual clothing to dress the avatars, Evan Gappelberg, CEO of NexTech AR, noted in an email.