The app gives users a greater sense of what some Taobao merchandise, including consumer electronics, home appliances and furniture, would look like in real life, according to the online feedback.
An app user browsing a DJI drone, for example, sees the device flying with its propellers spinning on the Vision Pro interface. Users can virtually move the drone’s 3D image via hand gestures and check the detailed information on every side or angle of the device.“The light effect of the goods can be adjusted in real time according to the lighting in the room,” Bilibili blogger Zhong Wenze said in his video about the new Taobao 3D shopping app. Zhong suggested there was room for improvement because the measurement of virtual goods, as seen on the app, was “a little inaccurate” from their actual physical size.Taobao’s new 3D-ready shopping app is still in the testing stage, according to a report on Wednesday by Chinese media Sina.com. The app’s final version will be available when Apple officially releases the Vision Pro on the mainland.
In February, Alibaba’s workplace collaboration platform DingTalk launched a native app for the Vision Pro headset, enabling users to send messages and hold video meetings in a 3D virtual environment. Special features on the Vision Pro version of DingTalk include options to display multiple windows and draw on the screen using hand gestures.DingTalk was among hundreds of apps and mobile games that became available on Apple’s visionOS App Store when the mixed-reality headset was released in the US on February 2.Those initiatives follow Alibaba chief executive Eddie Wu Yongming’s pledge last December to sharpen the group’s strategic focus on two main themes – “users first” and “artificial intelligence-driven” – amid increased competition in its industry.A number of major international companies, however, remain on the fence on whether to update their apps for Vision Pro users. Netflix, Spotify and Google have declined to modify their apps specifically for Apple’s headset.
At the US release of the Vision Pro in February, The Walt Disney Co partnered with Apple to offer Disney+ subscribers thousands of television shows and films for streaming on the mixed-reality headset.Many adverts for such rentals in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian in central Shaanxi province and Nanjing in eastern Jiangsu province, could be found weeks after the Vision Pro’s US release, according to a February 26 report by the Post.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tK%2FMqWWcp51kwaavx2iZop9dqbKktI6aqa2hk6GycH%2BRbnBtcWZkrq21wZqZmqtdqa6wrsCoZKWZpaOwqbHSZmqdZZOWvaKuy55krKCfpb2qusZmmKmoXZa1pq3DZpipqJyawG65wKKlpZmemXqzscuemKydXau2tLXOp2Spqp9iuqrExJ0%3D