How Much Does VR Application Development Cost?

Virtual Reality is a growing reality in every sector today. Enterprises and businesses are embracing opportunities created by this amazing technology to revamp their web and brick-and-mortar stores and workplaces.

VR hits the mainstream recently and facilitates more immersive experience taking retail, entertainment and gaming to an entirely new level. With Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Gear VR and about a dozen more VR gimmicks, the VR is making high strides.

If you ask me some of the recent initiatives taken by brands and multinational corporations, I can state the following incredibly awesome VR examples that the companies are trying their hands on:

• MasterCard and Swarovski team up on a brand-new virtual reality shopping app. The app aims at deeply engaging consumers while they shop for their favorite Swarovski jewelry, crystal home accessories. They can interact with the product in the virtual space, immerse with the design details before making a purchase.
• SMITH – a globally recognized commerce service provider- makes a multi-million-dollar investment in developing emotion-sensing B2B and B2C experiences in its Future commerce SMITH labs. The company has aimed to enhance and create personalized cognitive commerce experiences for customers and creating growth opportunities for brands like Salesforce, Star Wars, Disney
• AMC (world’s largest theatre chain) invests $20 Million in Dreamscape Theatrical Rollout in the US and Britain. A new move towards VR content, AMC plans to collaborate with Westfield to open a flagship located at its Century City mall in early 2018. This will be an exciting new world in VR, which will enable viewers to see fully rendered avatars of one another. The coming century will be present best cinematic storytelling.

So, while these brands are also struggling to retain themselves against competitors by keeping abreast of the latest tech, startups and medium-sized enterprises need to work harder to grab their positions. VR application development is one key to innovation, among other breakthrough technologies like IoT, Cloud, AR, On-demand, Cross-platform and more.

VR application development

Clearly, if you own a business app or want to build one, you can choose VR application development as your first choice. We’ll help you develop a meaningful, high-quality and immersive application custom to your business requirements.

But before that, we’d want you to know the actual development cost that’ll be required as a business investment from you. Because we know that it all boils down to the cost of development and business owners are concerned about it. Many times, they are apprehensive of risking their dollars that matter and are screwed up by app developers, ending up getting nothing profitable. Fortunately, we don’t do that. We love our happy clients and thus, we keep our costs upfront before clients.

Honestly speaking, VR application development is relatively more expensive than any other simple mobile app development. API integrations and app design need more attention-to-detail. We need a 3-d display for this kind of app and expertise in Unity 3d will be required.

• If we calculate the average cost of VR app development, it will be around $35k-$50k. This includes the overall cost of development without any hidden costs to be unveiled later.
• However, every requirement change during the development may result in an increase in the number of working hours, which will change the price accordingly and may go beyond what’s stated.
• Categorizing the VR app into 3-d Gaming app and eCommerce VR app- you will find the difference in the cost because the number of hours invested in each of them differ.
• The average number of hours for developing a VR gaming app is 180 to 200 days, so the average cost ranges between USD 40,000 to USD 50,000.
• The average number of hours for developing an eCommerce VR app is 100-150 days and the cost comes out to USD 30,000 to USD 35,000.

Though you may find several freelance app developers or app development companies near you, one thing we can assure is that app development companies in India will always be a cost-effective bet. We can give you expert advice from the start and then move on with an agile project development that fosters transparent communication with our developers and assure high-performing deliverables, as and what was promised.

How do we proceed with VR app development?

The major steps that we run through all our projects are:

Idea conceptualization: where our Project managers, expert BAs will evaluate that if the app idea is feasible and how it can be quantifiable.

Prototyping: After which we create a wireframe /a storyboard/ a dynamic prototype of how your app will actually work. This helps us take real-time, early feedback from the client.

UI/UX design: For a VR app, we have designers who have experience in Unity 3d and can vividly imagine the aesthetics and get them on the board.

Development and implementation: This entails clean and optimized coding and agile development cycles taken by our certified developers.

Quality testing: No project from us goes to the client without iterative testing. Our QAs test it for perfection.

Post-deployment maintenance: We are here to help you whenever you’re stuck at any point or need assistance on upgrading your system. We build a lifetime relationship with our clients and offer them unfailing support and maintenance for the project that we have built for them.

We, at Konstant, also offer flexible engagement models– full-time dedicated development, part-time development and on hourly basis. So, you are free to choose from the several options for getting a pixel-perfect app.

If you want to share your VR app idea, our experts are ready to listen to you. Request a quote here and we’ll get back to you really soon.