Pseudo Eye: The next-generation shopping application using Augmented Reality

Nowadays, online shopping is getting increasingly popular as it refines the shopping to the comfort of the homes rather than spending money on fuel and driving to a shop. The greater usage of smartphones and tablets increased the amount of time consumers spend online. E-shopping can be taken to the next stage with convenience and innovation with the help of Augmented Reality in this fast moving world. This paper presents Pseudo Eye, an innovative shopping application using Augmented Reality and developed for various platforms like Android and Windows Phone. It enables the users to purchase with ease and full in-store experience. It uses the Content Based Image Retrieval technique to search the captured image of a product and retrieve its details from the database.