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...Wednesday, March 21, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 2, 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...Monday, January 2, 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...Tuesday, December 20, 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...Tuesday, December 20, 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...Sunday, December 18, 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...Sunday, October 23, 2011
Have you seen the new Volkswagen Beetle? At first glance it’s actually pretty cool and decently aggressive. A major shift for Volkswagen’s Beetle. So how did they launch the biggest ever re-vamp of a classic old car? Well, through a series of standard billboards, bus shelters and just about every other traditional print-based media property [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Could this be the future for LEGO as this classic brand innovates into the electronic gaming world? This video introduces LEGO’s “Life of George” the world’s first interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for your iPhone. The clever thing about this game is it’s simplicty, LEGO have kept the game accessible to a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The Commonwealth Bank has recently won numerous awards for it’s augmented reality property app that has been around for almost a year. Now, claiming a “worldwide industry first”, the Commonwealth Bank has run a mobile-driven, augmented reality press ad in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane mX titles. The ad required a 3D reader iPhone app aims [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 11, 2011
Here is a taste of what we’ll be seeing at this year`s Mobile World Congress (MWC). This video demos the world`s first integrated markerless 3D object tracking on a smartphone. Or, to you and me, it shows us where Augmented Reality is heading: robust, smooth and useful everyday experiences.
Continue reading...Monday, October 4, 2010
Apart from the voice over, this is a great piece of Augmented Reality for WWF aimed at raising awareness around the plight of the siberian tiger, created by Leo Burnett Moscow. WWF printed thousands of tiger t-shirts and distributed them online and to key stores in Moscow featuring specially placed AR video mirrors that would instantly active the AR experience [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Olympus are really pushing the PEN right now and this Augmented Reality Experience is the latest campaign element to hit the streets. What’s great about this piece, is it’s not the standard promotional experience, rather more a viral product demo that you can hold in your hands, showcasing some of the camera’s features. It’s far [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 15, 2010
This has to be one of the best Augmented Reality Experience I’ve seen, created by Y&R Chicago for Hotels.com, this Augmented Reality website called Virtual Vacay is actually pretty useful and somewhat educational over the promotional type AR experiences that are gaining traction. It allows you to experience various US cities in the palm of your hands, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 4, 2010
This new campaign site out of Stockholm for Jade Jagger & Indiska (fashion retailer) is another example of the “virtual dressing room” augmented reality engine but also takes it a little further by providing an interactive video experience around the models showcasing the garments before you enter the virtual dressing room. The site was created by [...]
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