How to improve market research and reduce costs with the 3D Virtual Shelf

PRS IN VIVO wanted to perform a shelf test for merchandising research for a hair care client. Our 3D virtual shelves helped them offer a realistic and immersive virtual alternative in times of Covid-19.

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Services

  • Product Launch
  • Concept and Packaging Testing
  • Quantitative & Qualitative Research

An agile approach to better market research

Traditional methods of doing market research throw up a number of challenges, such as cost and turnaround time.

Time to set up a physical store with the correctly arranged products takes days if not weeks, assuming a suitable location is found that is also accessible to participants.

Costs for this type of process are very high in comparison with using 3D. With the use of a physical location, it is not possible to use a large respondent sample as this entails significant expenses for each respondent.

Also, changes to any aspect of the setup can be problematic and time-consuming, how quick is it to change a design and have this reproduced on the physical shelf?

What I was most impressed by was the turnaround. I handed you files at approximately 5 pm my time and I received the first shelf when I opened my eyes the next morning. I received the second shelf an hour or 2 later”

Lauren McCluskey, Vice President Qualitative research, MAGID. 

Benefits of 3D Virtual Shelves

Fortunately, those methods aren’t the only way to conduct packaging, concept, or product launch research.

Working with IDG, it is possible to deploy the 3D Virtual Shelf both in a quantitative and qualitative approach.

High definition:

It is possible to project the 3D Virtual Shelf at 4k resolution using rear projection, allowing for a high definition experience with a great level of product detail.

Quantitative Research:

The same Virtual Shelf can be deployed online for a quantitative approach, doing so means saving days on the research and reducing the costs significantly as there is no need to recreate the stimulus for that specific fieldwork.

How IDG implements the solution with their Virtual Aisles

IDG uses our technology as part of their Mobile Virtual Aisle offering. This offering allows for an in-store experience that enables in-context store and shelf learning while being portable to anywhere in the world.

Using eye-tracking and qualitative interviews, IDG extracts immediate insights from shoppers’ interactions with the aisle.

The Virtual Aisle lends itself to both quantitative and qualitative approaches and is ideal for:

  • POGs / Aisle Resets / Merchandising
  • Package Testing / Optimisation
  • Shop-A-Longs
  • POS, Signage & Displays
  • Path To Purchase
  • Eye-Tracking
  • Menuboard optimisation

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Our innovative tech solutions help you build any product market research you can imagine

3D Virtual Store

Simulate in-store experience

Build your virtual shelf test in minutes

Blend real world 360 photos with 3D interactive shelves

Display virtual a store on a life-sized projector screen

Test products in realistically looking e-commerce environments

Insights

Get the insights you need to beat competition on shelf

Improve product preformance, visually, by price or placment

Explore how pricing and volumes can be used to expand your product range

Software

Our innovative tech solutions help you build any product market research you can imagine

Build your virtual shelf test in minutes

Blend real world 360 photos with 3D interactive shelves

Display virtual a store on a life-sized projector screen

Test products in realistically looking e-commerce environments

Get the insights you need to beat competition on shelf

Pack Testing

Improve product preformance, visually, by price or placment

Range Builder

Explore how pricing and volumes can be used to expand your product range