Developing remote sales paradigm using Augmented Reality

During the covid time, car dealerships were struggling to stay in business. Because introducing the vehicle to the potential customer in person was nearly impossible. On the other hand, there are customers who live far from car dealerships interested in a vehicle and we had to provide a solution. Our proposal is to perform online video meetings between customers and salesmen using an AR headset. Therefore, we have developed a system to make easy-going meetings. This system has 3 different development environments which are a Web application for managing Car Dealer, an Android application for AR headsets, Web video call application for customers to attend the call. The idea is to arrange remote sales meetings between customers and the salesman for presenting the vehicle. The salesman is using AR headsets to start the meeting and share a live video stream with the customer. The customer is using the shared meeting link to connect to the meeting. When a customer joins the meeting, they start seeing a live video stream of the vehicle as POV from the salesman’s AR headset. Salesmen and customers see vehicle information on their screens. In this way, the salesman performs a comfortable presentation to the potential customer. All other details will be shared in other sections.