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 [...]
Continue reading...2. February 2012
Here’s an interesting augmented reality piece. It’s called “Between Page And Screen” an augmented reality book of poems, which works like a digital pop-up book that users activate through a webcam, enabling you to hold the words right in your hands. While this is decently basic in principle, it’s still a little unfriendly to actually [...]
Continue reading...28. January 2012
You’ll know by now I’m a huge advocate of digital convergence, and this piece is one of the very best I’ve ever seen, it takes the concept to new heights… It’s called Bear 71, an interactive, multi-user documentary experience and installation that debuts at the Sundance Film Festival. Bear 71 Live observes and records the [...]
Continue reading...26. January 2012
NET-A-PORTER are rolling out Augmented Reality Shopping Windows, around the world including Paris, New York, London, Munich and Sydney. The video demo above is from late last year for Fashion’s Night Out celebrations in London and New York, but as of today, it’s been rolled out globally for the new Karl by Karl Lagerfeld collection, [...]
Continue reading...2. January 2012
Ever wondered how those Mercedes-Benz accessories really look at every angle when added to the car? Well, now you don’t have to. Mercedes-Benz has launched a series of new Augmented Reality Apps across iOS/Android for a few of its accessory lines, with more to come later this year… To kick it off, Mercedes-Benz lets you [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2011
It seems Augmented Reality projects are running hot this Christmas, and here is another example, this time for American Express, who’ve launched “Talking Tags”, a DM campaign where every American Express card holder was sent a “Talking Tag” that drove them to an Augmented Reality experience online. (created by the guys at Ogilvy Sydney) There [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2011
Lacta Chocolate have produced some innovative campaigns over the last 12 months, and next up is this interesting Augmented Reality piece that allows you to send love messages that are activated via image recognition over any Lacta Chocolate wrapper. (created by OgilvyOne Athens) Once you’ve got the app you can send and receive Lacta love [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2011
Guinness has teamed up with Blippar to create a Christmas themed Augmented Reality experience called “Decorate Your Pint”. Utilising Blippar’s image recognition technology the app detects a pint of Guinness and instantly overlays Augmented Reality controls so you can decorate your pint on the fly, before saving the image and sharing with friends on Facebook [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2011
Blippar’s image recognition based Augmented Reality platform is getting more and more popular around the world, so JWT have teamed up with them to issue staff with Augmented Reality business cards, and here is the demo video to give you a quick taste! The Blippar image recognition engine reads the graphics on the card and [...]
Continue reading...5. December 2011
REI have just launched their first store in NYC, probably a weird place to have an awesome, hardcore outdoor store right? Well, not if you can convince New Yorkers that the real outdoors aren’t all that far away, and what better way to do that then tempt with augmented reality ads. Download the app and [...]
Continue reading...21. November 2011
Things are heating up in the Times Square visual overload arena! This time with a new Disney Parks Augmented Reality Billboard experience that spans across Times Square. Disney have taken over the entire American Eagle Outfitters digital billboard set and then across the road have installed the Augmented Reality experience featuring all of their popular [...]
Continue reading...13. November 2011
Well it looks like it’s going to be an Augmented Reality Xmas in 2011…With Macy’s the latest brand to release an AR app for the festive season. This time, it’s an Augmented Reality Xmas Card App, where you can turn up at any of the Macy’s “Believe Stations” to post your kid’s letters to Santa, [...]
Continue reading...9. November 2011
I’m not sure I can pack much more Augmented Reality into a single week of posts on Digital Buzz, but here goes! Starbucks are about to release a new app to activate unique Augmented Reality experiences triggered by their famous red xmas cups. The idea is to find, activate and share all 5 special xmas [...]
Continue reading...7. November 2011
Following on from a whole bunch of Augmented Reality posts this week, it seemed fitting to include this, the Parrot Carrot Safari, a very cool digital extension to a new Australian Kids book, in the form of an Augmented Reality iPhone app that lets kids interact and extend book’s content. The physical book tells the [...]
Continue reading...7. November 2011
I think most of us have seen the “last standing” promotional challenge mechanic… Well, PlayStation and Uncharted have teamed up to create something a little more interesting for the launch the Uncharted3 game, using Augmented Reality for a who can last the longest campaign! It’s called Grab The Ring, first you activate your webcam and [...]
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21. March 2012
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