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Kroger mobile app to receive important upgrade

This update to the application is meant to completely overhaul the experience and simplify virtually everything.

Kroger Co. has announced that it will be introducing yet another slew of important changes to its mobile app, with the intention of greatly improving the experience of its shoppers through enhanced digital offerings.

The grocery chain, based in Cincinnati, has been placing an increasing focus on its mobile experience.

With the latest upgrade to the Kroger mobile app, it has also introduced a new feature that will remember the grocery list of the user, but that will also take that list and break it down into the locations in which the items can be found within the store. That will allow a user to be able to pick up each of the items he or she wants without missing one on the list and having to head back to the other end of the store. The idea is to allow for the smoothest possible shopping experience with the lowest risk of frustrations from missed items on a grocery list.

The mobile app is also designed to make it easy to build a grocery list using barcode scans of the products.

Mobile app to receive upgradeThat way, as each product runs out at home, the user can scan the package to add it to the grocery list. Kroger has been adding several updates to its mobile application over the last while as it has been looking to smartphones to help it to provide its customers with the best possible experience.

That said, the smartphone app has also been designed to provide Kroger with improved analytics so that it can further streamline and enhance its systems, strategies, procedures, products and services and continually improve the experience its customers enjoy.

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On top of that, the app provides users with information about weekly sales as well as about offers that may be of specific interest to the user based on the previous purchases that he or she has made. So far, the mobile app has already received over 10 million downloads and it has offered users more than 2.5 billion coupons since it was first added to app stores back in 2010.

YouTube mobile app to support videos in virtual reality

The uber popular streaming video site has unveiled its new paid subscription service and future plans.

The YouTube Space in L.A. played host to a number of announcement about the website and its mobile app, and now there have been announcements with regards to two interesting new features that will be added to the streaming service’s Android application.

The announcement stated that virtual reality video would be added to the YouTube Android app.

This provides V.R. with the largest platform that it has ever had. The mobile app already supports virtual reality video, which is a format that provides viewers with 360 degree perspectives of the videos which the company has said makes the experience more realistic. In order to view one of these videos, a user must simply play the virtual reality video on the application, then select the VR mode button. The phone must then be placed in the “Cardboard” device from Alphabet Inc. That gadget is what provides the actual viewing experience in virtual reality.

The Cardboard viewer can be used to upload virtual reality content to be viewed through the YouTube mobile app.

Mobile App - Virtual RealityAccording to YouTube, at the time of the launch of the service, there were about a dozen videos available in this format, including one that was based on content from the Hunger Games movies. YouTube has also announced that a more limited virtual reality experience would be available using Cardboard simply by playing the rest of the videos in the streaming site’s massive library. Those videos would give the type of experience that would be expected from an IMAX theater.

According to the Immersive Technology Alliance executive director, Neil Schneider, 3D video was first introduced by YouTube in 2009 and the company was an early HD video adopter. For that reason, the VR trade organization’s executive director said that “It’s not surprising they would take the angle of adding virtual reality”.

Schneider also stated that people should be able to anticipate an influx of high quality content, but also said that it would likely be quite difficult to create amateur content since it is usually quite expensive to purchase the equipment needed to make VR content. It will be interesting to see how this changes the experience provided by the YouTube mobile app.