Virtual Reality Developers - Friday Sundae Studio

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Reality Bites

There are numerous deployment options for your VR content. Cupcake Friday can advise you on the best approach and equipment required

Mobile VR is the most accessible of the VR platforms. It requires a powerful mobile phone and an unpowered headset like Google Daydream. There are no cables, so people can sit or stand. Mobile VR is quick to develop and offers a simpler visual experience. But from many first time users, this is a revelatory experience.

Stationary "desktop" VR is when a person stays mostly in the same place, often seated, whilst being connected to a nearby computer via a cable. This offers superior graphical realism over mobile VR as a powerful PC is used to create the experience. Users can also lean in and tilt their heads to get closer to the virtual world. This is a big step up from mobile VR.

Virtually Yours

Exploring an immersive, interactive virtual world can wow audiences like few other mediums can. And that’s no hyperbole. When crafted carefully, virtual reality can completely engage audiences and command their attention.

Virtual tours, narrative experiences and gamified interactions. VR content can bring your message alive and create a dazzling, memorable experience.

But they say too much of a good thing is bad, and anyone who’s experienced motion sickness in VR an attest to this. The key to creating comfortable and accessible VR is restraint. No big roller-coaster rides with us. Cupcake Friday specialise in comfortable and engaging experiences that anyone can enjoy, not just the thrill seekers.

Room scale VR offers the highest possible realism by allowing users to walk around a small space and interact with the virtual world for total immersion. They are still connected to a nearby PC by a long cable. Unlike stationery VR, room-scale allows people to walk, jump, kneel and even crawl around the VR space!

Augmented Reality

Add some extra magic to your mobile app by surprising your users with an unexpected jaunt into Augmented Reality

Augmented reality differs from virtual reality in that it does not use a VR headset. Instead 2D and 3D images are shown on a phone or tablet, usually overlaying real-time video or images taken from the device's front facing camera. The hugely popular Pokemon GO was example of this, but there are many non-gaming applications for this including promotions, education and eBooks.

We love to include AR components as part of an app to create surprising events for the user. Holding a phone over a printed brochure or book can bring 3D objects to life, trigger audio and voice overs. Pointing a tablet at an image or sign can overlay additional information for guidance or delight.

Augmented reality is little under-used outside of gaming, but the creative possibilities are endless, and we really love the fun, discovery and excitement of bringing mundane items to life with the press of a button. Give us a call to find out more about the possibilities of AR for your business or campaign.

VR and AR are exciting new mediums that can really capture your audience’s attention like nothing else. However, with a limited user base, this cutting edge technology needs to be used in the right way to maximise its benefits.

At exhibitions, trade show, AGM or even at your offices, VR content can provide a captivating and immersive world in which to communicate your message. AR can be added as a feature to a new or existing app to create surprising experiences and anyone can enjoy on their mobile or tablet.

As we develop VR and AR content we can also provide non-3D versions for use online or via mobile. Allowing your to wow your audience with VR and AR in person, then let them continue their journey at home and at their leisure.

If you’re looking for a friendly, straight talking, jargon free conversation on whether VR content is right for your audience, give the Cupcakes a call.

Our Gaming Background:

How it Helps

Engagement

Retention

Virality

Conversion

Engagement

Drawing users into and keeping them engaged was a core requirement of any game long before mainstream apps began adopting the same principles.

We’ve had a lot of practice onboarding new users whilst simultaneously teaching them the rules of the experience and keeping them entertained.

Today we use this same knowledge to create highly tuned engagement funnels that capture users and minimise dropouts. We further use detailed analytics to then refine the funnel to maximise completed users journeys. For us, it’s all in the game.

Retention

Once you have the users, how do you keep them? By being clear on the ideal session length of your experience and providing engagement activities that can be completed and reward within that time.

Then set up the next next session by providing reason for engagement and the possibility of ‘missing out’ if a session is skipped.

Games know how to become habit forming, how to create loyalty and a compulsion to engage. Cupcake Friday uses these same techniques to create apps, websites (and games) that keep their users coming back for more.

Virality

People love to share their experiences, but only if that experience is worth sharing. We design our products with mechanics that creates feelings of wonder, delight or achievement. We create unexpected events that warrant talking about.

We embed within our products the ability to easily share at the press of a button, to harness the impulse of a good feeling and share that moment.

Once the message has been sent, we use analytics to test its effectiveness at drawing in cohorts. Through live updates we can refine this message to maximise the capture of your users social media network.

Conversion

Conversion will mean a lot of different things to campaigns. It can be a user following through on a call to action, or sharing their experience with their social media network. It can mean placing an order, or integrating an app into their life.

Wherever it means, getting there is a careful process that can benefit from micro adjustments to the user experience to help nudge them over the finish line.

At Cupcake Friday we carefully track areas where users ‘dropout’ of the experience and critically, their actions prior to conversion. Using this data we continually refine the landing zone to bring more users in.

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