What is the role of experience centers in the corporate and retail industries?

Experience Center

Sayonika Paul

4 Min

Dec 30, 2025

The market is saturated with digital noise and customer skepticism; traditional presentations and conventional showrooms are failing to convert. The gap between a company’s brand promise and the customer’s actual experience is a critical business liability. 

Experience centers are the strategic response: dynamic, immersive environments that transform abstract brand value into a concrete, interactive reality. For corporate and retail leaders, these centers are not a marketing expense—they are a critical investment in a brand’s narrative, designed to accelerate decision-making, drive tangible outcomes, and forge lasting customer relationships.

How do tech experience centers in retail and corporate spaces elevate engagement?

Experience centers have become immersive spaces now. In retail, these spaces provide a multi-sensory product journey—often using interactive screens, responsive AR surfaces, and personalized workflows. Indian conglomerates have pioneered such spaces, crafting environments where visitors shape their journey. 

For example, luxury automotive showrooms like BMW India allow prospective buyers to understand the features of electric vehicles (EVs) on massive screens as well as through iPad-controlled software, while textile brands embed virtual try-on platforms onto shop floors.

BMW - Interactive wall

On the corporate side, AI experience centers act as agile R&D suites. Executives use multi-touch collaboration walls to simulate business scenarios, while AI-driven analytics deliver instant insights during consultations. Central to this approach is the design’s ability to adapt in real time, ensuring virtual experience center capabilities—such as remote participation and co-creation—are always within reach.

The Deloitte Dot Hub in Bengaluru illustrates how invisible tech can power overtly human connection: object-recognition tables, AI-powered 3D visualization, and a virtual assistant, NOVA. It personalizes every step by linking online behaviors to in-person interactions, all without the user being aware of the complexity involved. 

Experience Center Holobox

AI Experience Centers: Redefining Intelligence in Customer Interaction

Intelligent technology is no longer an overlay but the lifeblood of customer experience centers. In retail, AI parses visitor data to offer context-aware product suggestions that fit each person’s lifestyle, occasion, or even the season. Customer-facing kiosks engage in meaningful dialogues in Indian languages, helping demystify choices and build trust.

AI experience centers in corporate environments support dynamic project simulations and automate the translation of brainstorming sessions into actionable agendas. Capgemini’s Mumbai 5G Experience Center exemplifies this, enabling stakeholders from sectors such as utilities and retail to interact with real-use case demos. 

5G Experience Center

AR-driven, sector-specific modules adapt according to user profile, turning high-touch collaboration into a scalable virtual experience center that extends beyond the boundaries of location.

Unifying Spatial and Digital Branding: Consistency Across All Touchpoints

Experience centers now unify spatial and digital branding, creating a network of touchpoints that reinforce a cohesive identity. Every architectural choice, every digital surface, and every data-triggered interaction is choreographed to reflect the brand’s values. In B2B, this might appear as live dashboards that clients customize to mirror their own data sets in real time. For retail, it is evident in spaces where digital mirrors, influencer streams, and AR overlays work together to immerse the customer in a narrative unique to each visit.

The Huda Beauty brand experience center stands as a case in point for this new paradigm. Within the flagship, immersive LED installations blend seamlessly with virtual makeup try-ons. Smart digital mirrors offer real-time shade recommendations based on facial scans, powered by back-end AI. Customers shift effortlessly from brick-and-mortar exploration to mobile app follow-up, with every interaction reinforcing the Huda Beauty aesthetic and ensuring the transition between spatial and virtual experience centers is not just smooth but almost invisible.

Banks in India have drawn inspiration from such models, deploying centralized knowledge pods, ambient data displays, and responsive onboarding kiosks—translating digital branding consistency into environments that are memorable, trustworthy, and deeply intuitive.

Data and Observations Shaping the Indian Context

  • Over 70% of urban consumers in India now prefer brands that provide personalized, context-driven interactions across every touchpoint, whether digital or offline.

  • Organizations with advanced brand experience centers and AI experience center infrastructure report up to 25% gains in year-on-year brand recall and employee engagement scores in the 30% range.

  • Retailers with integrated digital and spatial designs (such as virtual experience center elements) have seen a 35% decrease in product returns and up to 38% higher customer satisfaction.

  • Two-thirds of Indian CX leaders identify data-driven customization and conversational AI as core to their future-ready strategies for customer experience centers.

Holobox Delivers a Multi-Angle Product View

Conclusion: Intention, Innovation, and Quiet Impact

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Sayonika Paul
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