Portugal's BPI opens VR branch - Finextra

The slope worked with Unity Technologies, the VR and AR specializer down Pokémon Go, connected the immersive, 3D branch.

Users tin locomotion astir 2 floors, learning astir and interacting with assorted offers - simulating things similar savings, mortgages and idiosyncratic loans. There are besides amusement features specified arsenic a mini-golf game.

While the VR subdivision tin beryllium accessed by anyone with Oculus, BPI is besides rolling retired the headsets to much than 100 branches astir Portugal for customers to experimentation with.

While the subdivision is presently lone a showcase, BPI is predicting that VR could yet service arsenic caller fiscal transactions and income channel, replicating the travel of online banking.

Francisco Barbeira, enforcement committee member, BPI, says: "We judge that the mode radical unrecorded with integer platforms volition beryllium overmuch much immersive successful the future, and we privation to pioneer a caller mode of interacting with our customers, who are astatine the bosom of our business."