A novel approach to home furnishing using mixed reality and blockchain technologies
It’s been said that the final mile in the $600 billion-dollar home furnishing industry’s supply chain system is the most important part of the supply chain. However, the final mile is just the end goal result of a supply chain system. Every link in the supply chain must work without fail.
However, in the digital age, the home furnishing supply chain system and brick-and-mortar shopping is slowly becoming outdated. One company that is adapting to this new world of doing business, via advances in virtual reality consumer interfacing and blockchain technology, is home furnishing design platform Home Platform.

Home Platform uses blockchain technology and virtual reality interfacing to streamline the home furnishing supply chain system. This company is pioneering a new form of home furnishing ecosystem involving the industry players and the consumer all together.
Home Platform collaborates with over 175 manufacturers to create 3D models, which can be visualised and these models accurately represent products which are available to purchase. Consumers can use a virtual reality interfacing digital showroom app that allows for visualisation and home design before ordering. All products are visualised to ‘scale,’ meaning that the Augmented Reality version is on a 1:1 scale with the actual product.

This business practice of adopting blockchain and VR cuts down on delays, errors, logistics and transport costs and large retailer margins.
The use of the HOME token enables smart contracts that autonomously pay out for delivery, activities in the supply chain and on the platform. The HOME token also incentivizes user-to-user curation and maintenance of the content of the platform.
Home Platform’s revolutionary use of blockchain, AI, virtual reality technology, and digitally connecting the home furnishing industry with the consumer is changing home furnishing shopping for the better.
However, before we do a deep dive into the future of home furnishing, lets talk about the problems currently plaguing the traditional supply chain system in the industry. Like, why it is outdated, inefficient and contributing to the ‘falling out of favor’ of traditional forms of home furnishing shopping.
Current Home Furnishing Supply Chain Problems And Their Effects On Shopping
The supply chain management system’s concerning parts are primarily that logistics and transport networks must work unerringly without fail to guarantee service.
Some supply chain systems are just too massively interconnected over vastly long distances to continue working optimally. The larger a supply chain system becomes, either nationwide or global, the progressively greater probability for delays, errors and miscommunication increases.
Prohibitive costs incurred by supply chain system breakdowns are then inevitably passed down to consumers to mitigate supply chain system expenses for companies.
This error and shipping delay prone systems also create unsold inventory, discounts , sales and lost profits. Many consumers also return furnishing purchases because they are shopping in brick-and-mortar stores where they can’t visualize how their purchases will finally look until they are delivered.

Homeplatform — The Future Of Blockchain Powered, Virtual Reality Home Furnishing Experience
Homeplatform.io is a global reaching, blockchain powered designer platform that allows consumers greater control in online home furnishing and lets them virtually design how their prospective purchases will look like in their own space, with other items they are considering.
Mixed Reality, the combination of augmented reality and virtual reality, and its ability to allow online consumers to prospectively design their home before they buy, is the future of home furnishing shopping.
Via smart device, laptop or desktop, online consumers can download a digital showroom app. This allows them to peruse products, visualize, arrange and design how these products will look at home and then order.
Home Platform collaborates with over 175 home furnishing manufacturers.
This is a seamless and liberal blockchain system that is more efficient than the paper powered supply chain system of before.
The Blockchain Connection
The blockchain, as adapted by Home Platform streamlines and digitally modernizes the furnishing supply chain system. All records, transactions and logistics records are stored on the blockchain.
Delivery is transparently trackable from manufacturer to the consumer. This advance in business logistics will dramatically cut down on the errors, miscommunications and delays caused by paper systems.
Smart contracts, are self-executable contracts, in the form of computer code, which trigger actions autonomously, given that the pre-set conditions are met.
The once massively unwieldy paper-powered traditional supply chain system can now be efficiently and securely scaled down to the supply chain management of the blockchain.
The HOME Token
The HOME token, which powers the Homeplatform.io functionality, is used to facilitate all home furnishing and shopping transactions and interactions on the platform.
Designers, manufacturers, vendors, real estate professionals and every strata of business connected to home furnishing can make use of HOME tokens to provide access to goods and services on the platform.
Consumers can use HOME tokens to pay for goods or services on the platform. Additionally, consumers on Home Platform can earn HOME tokens by engaging in activities that help grow the site. Like submitting reviews, designs or regularly commenting.
The strategic hodling of tokens also determines varying levels of privilege on the platform. The more HOME tokens that you have, the more you can benefit from the platform as a consumer or home furnishing professional.
Mixed Reality Based Home Furnishing Shopping Is Here
The current home furnishing supply chain system can now work collaboratively, securely and in a trustless manner via the blockchain, 3D and augmented reality technologies.
Its consumers can envision their purchases through virtual reality shopping and prospective home furnishing design. This new way of shopping will replace straining to use the imagination while shopping in a brick-and-mortar store.
The home furnishing shopping experience has already been indelibly changed. Homeplatform.io is already ahead of the curve. To understand how Homeplatform.io helps consumers utilise technological innovation to enhance the shopping experience, check out this video.
This new experience of home furnishing is bound to create a satisfied customer at every step of the process. Every time.
