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LEGO Story Builder: Augmented Reality App
Here’s a new piece of student work from a team at Miami Ad School, aimed at bringing Augmented Reality story telling to every LEGO set around the world. Grab a box, build the object brick by brick and then hold up an iPhone or iPad to bring it to life, creative an interactive story that [...]
Continue reading...Sony: AR Headphone Music Festival
17. February 2013
Seriously cool. In Shibuya, Tokyo, people who wear headphones (or wanted to try them) were treated to a one of a kind Augmented Reality Music Festival late last year, called the ‘Sony Headphone Music Festival’, which ultimately expanded to ‘Headphone Music Festivals’ all over Japan. The Augmented Reality Music Festivals were created using Sony’s proprietary [...]
Continue reading...LEGO: Brickmented Reality Holiday Campaign
3. February 2013
I love it when brands create holiday campaigns that aren’t completely self centered… And this is a pretty good attempt by the guys at LEGO, with their ‘Happy Holidays’ campaign, which challenged people to create real world LEGO connections as part of a bigger fairytale that engages young and old all over the world in [...]
Continue reading...Tokyo Newspaper: AR Reader App For Kids
29. January 2013
The Tokyo Newspaper is suffering the same fate as many other leading city papers around the world, and the guys at Dentsu Tokyo have been trying to find new ways for the paper to connect with readers, when they came up with this, an Augmented Reality Reader app for kids, bringing a little extra life [...]
Continue reading...McDonald’s: TrackMyMacca’s App
17. January 2013
Here’s an interesting app that’s just been launched in Australia today. TrackMyMacca’s is a world first for McDonald’s as it takes Australians ‘behind the scenes’ of their meal, showing them where their food has come from. This app uses technology that accesses McDonald’s supply-chain and augmented reality to deliver interactive information about McDonald’s food. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Hyundai i30: A New Type of Virtual Test Drive
27. November 2012
We’ve all seen a tonne of different ‘Virtual Test Drive’ campaigns from around the world, but I can’t remember ever seeing one like this… For the launch of the new Hyundai i30 in South Afarica, iLogic Agency have created this Virtual Test Drive Game with the aim of injecting ‘fun’ into what is normally a [...]
Continue reading...Jameson Irish Whiskey: Playable AR Billboards
25. October 2012
Jameson Irish Whiskey has launched a huge Blippar activation in Australia for the launch of their new RTDs. The Blippar campaign turns the bottle (where ever it is seen) into a game when scanned with the Blippar App, which is powered by Image Recognition technology on an Augmented Reality Platform, creating ‘playable’ billboards, adshells, websites, [...]
Continue reading...Volvo: Augmented Reality X-Ray iPad App
13. August 2012
Perhaps the new Volvo has so much hidden technology or maybe because the they just wanted to create some extra buzz at the show, either way, the Volvo X-Ray App that was released at the Geneva Auto Show is a pretty cool way for potential customers to look under the skin of the new Volvo [...]
Continue reading...Australian Defence Force: Mobile Medic App
26. June 2012
Less of an ad and more of a test, this is the latest recruitment campaign for the Australian Defence Force, called Mobile Medic – and it just won 4x Gold and many more silver/bronze at Cannes Lions 2012. A mobile app that challenges you to diagnose the patient in the ad through the Mobile Medic [...]
Continue reading...Justin Bieber Launches Album with Blippar
20. June 2012
How do you bring augmented reality to the young masses – enlist the appeal of Justin Bieber. This is what Mercury Music and Blippar have joined forces to do. The latest Bieber album offers fans an exclusive AR experience. This offering is a world first for an album launch of this size offering fans around [...]
Continue reading...BBC: Frozen Planet Augmented Reality Event
28. May 2012
Augmented Reality Installations are still trending strong, and here is a great one from the BBC that’s been travelling shopping centres in the US recently. To promote the new BBC “Frozen Planet” Blu-ray/DVD, they teamed up with Appshaker, to create a highly realistic Augmented Reality installation that allowed people to interact with some of the [...]
Continue reading...Volkswagen: Augmented Reality Electric Cafe
27. May 2012
Volkswagen are pushing hard into China, but it’s not always easy to be creative over there, and this comes close… The Augmented Reality based “Electric Café” from Volkswagen, setup to educate and inspire people in China / Hong Kong about how energy efficient the Volkswagen Electric cars actually are in comparison to their every day [...]
Continue reading...Absolut Inspire: Augmented Reality Street Art
5. May 2012
Check out this Future Lions 2012 entry by Iris Gavric & Daniel Otterbein… Proposed for Absolut Vodka, they’ve attempted to create movement called Absolut Inspire, an Augmented Reality Street Art App designed to create a new world without creative limitations. The campaign is a fusion of the Google Street View platform combined with an app [...]
Continue reading...Unilever: Augmented Reality Cinema Experience
28. April 2012
Unilever’s “Paddle Pop” ice cream brand in Turkey recently turned the hero “Lion” mascot into a super hero that appeared in Cinema’s across the country as part of an interactive Augmented Reality Experience that saw a battle played out inside the audience of each cinema. As the characters duelled in front of the screen, the [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Lumia: Augmented Reality Angry Birds
21. March 2012
Here is the latest piece of the Nokia Lumia campaign that is travelling the world right now, an Augmented Reality Angry Birds Installation in Sydney, Australia, powered by the Xbox Kinect to create an interactive Augmented Reality experience where you can kick all the Angry Birds you’d like, along with a virtual dance off with [...]
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