Isabelle Hierholtz, the user strategy director for the AR/VR/XR advisor company Digi-Capital, believes mobile AR advertising offers companies an easy place to start when trying to adopt a mobile AR strategy. “This can be done with digital agency partnerships as a first step. It’s a good way to learn what works and what doesn’t,” said […]
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Advertisers’ anticipation of 5G, per the Verizon Media survey As 5G begins its rollout this year across the U.S., 85 percent of consumers expect the increased bandwidth will benefit augmented reality experiences and 80 percent expect greater use of artificial intelligence. That’s the picture from a new survey about 5G from Verizon Media, “The 5G revolution: Excitement
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Frozen in place, alert and quietly breathing the eight-foot Perentie lizard sizes me up. The only discernible movement is an opaque eyelid gliding over a dark reptilian gaze. I don’t THINK it will eat me for breakfast. Suddenly it’s long, forked tongue darts out into the air just barely missing my nose, as the lizard
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Ads inside virtual reality (VR) environments have taken another step toward becoming commonplace, with the recent announcement that Oath and National Geographic have partnered to programmatically deliver VR ads for season 2 of Nat Geo’s “Mars” docudrama TV series. The series, produced by the legendary team of director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer, shows
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Online retailers now have another weapon in their marketing arsenal: a new augmented reality (AR) Web-based platform. Called Axis, it is intended specifically for retailers and was launched on Monday by Santa Monica AR/VR ad agency and tech shop Vertebrae. How it helps drive visitors to online stores. It takes advantage of the fact that
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Now in movie theaters in the US and Canada: an augmented reality (AR) Halloween-inspired experience before the feature film. Called the Noovie ARcade Halloween Experience, it will be available through Halloween night by National Cinemedia, which describes itself as the largest cinema advertising network in North America. Invading 20,800 screens. The rollout covers 20,800 screens
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s 2017 F8 Developer’s Conference. Facebook just renamed its Camera Effects Platform as Spark AR and announced it is expanding the platform to more developers on Instagram. Developers can now apply to join the larger closed beta program. Why marketers and influencers should care Spark AR allows developers for
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Shopify unveiled Monday new tools for their vendors to create augmented reality (AR) experiences. The announcement comes on the heels of Apple’s Monday release of iOS 12, which includes new functionality that provides AR experiences from within a web browser. Shopify AR provides businesses with a toolkit to create their own AR experiences, and includes
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Last summer, Tobii Pro announced an integration between its eye-tracking tech and the HTC Vive headset. This allowed eye-tracking precision for marketers looking to understand exactly what consumers were viewing as they “walked” through virtual environments like simulated grocery stores. But, Director of Research Tim Holmes told me, setting up the heat maps or tracking
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Earlier today Apple wrapped its WWDC 2018 developer keynote, with a long list of announcements. Apple has four platforms, iOS, MacOS, Apple TV and WatchOS. Each one saw new upgrades or features. We’ll have “what it means” stories about several of the announcements later and tomorrow, but the following is a summary overview of everything
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