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Walmart patent filings hint at VR shopping experience

August 20, 2018

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It’s been about six months since Walmart’s Store No. 8 innovation wing acquired virtual reality technology start-up Spatialand, raising questions as to what Walmart’s virtual reality strategy is. Will it acquire other start-ups to match with Spatialand? Will it use VR technology in stores, online, on mobile, just for staff training, or all of the above?

The publication of these two patents doesn’t give us all of the answers, and it may not even go a long way toward giving us a glimpse of Walmart’s strategic path for VR technology. That’s the nature of patent filings — they can be highly speculative.

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