Beauty giant Coty has unveiled a smart augmented reality ‘magic mirror’ in its Bourjois boutique in Paris which lets users try on products virtually when they physically pick them up. Coty is describing the tech as “blended reality”. It’s been designed to promote Bourjous’ new ‘Velvet’ lipstick range, and to activate it users stand in […]
Fast-casual burger restaurant Bareburger expects to soon replace all of its paper menus with 3D models of its burgers and other items rendered in augmented reality, but for now, the company is preparing some rather interesting limited AR interactions. The up-and-coming restaurant chain, framed by some as one of the hottest in the US, […]
FF Los Angeles unveiled the “Ocean Miner” project for the Tara Expéditions Foundation: an innovative system somewhere between blockchain and land art that gives the ocean the opportunity to produce Bitcoin to finance its own preservation. The Tara Expéditions Foundation travels the world’s seas with scientists on board its schooner, Tara. For 15 years, […]
Historic monuments around the world face threats from natural disasters, tourism and war, which is what led Ben Kacyra to found CyArk — a non-profit organization working to scan and digitally archive ancient monuments. With laser scanning, photogrammetry, drone imaging and structured light scanning, CyArk’s team has been developing detailed, digital 3D images of structures […]
Humans are usually good at isolating a single voice in a crowd, but computers? Not so much — just ask anyone trying to talk to a smart speaker at a house party. Google may have a surprisingly straightforward solution, however. Its researchers have developed a deep learning system that can pick out specific voices by […]
Embracing the core value of technology and creativity, Cheil WW India has launched the Good Vibes app, the first-ever mobile app that enables two-way communication for the deafblind. There are an estimated 6,00,000 deafblind people around the world, while many more remain unknown. Since 95% of what we learn is through our eyes and […]
People living with dementia and Alzheimer’s could soon be able to relive happy memories of the summer of 1966 and England’s World Cup win, thanks to a virtual reality (VR) project. ‘The Wayback’ – a free-to-download app – uses VR to spark memories and trigger conversations by fully immersing viewers in the sights and […]
Alibaba has introduced a car vending machine on Tmall, its online marketplace application, which allows consumers in China to choose from 100 Ford cars for a test drive. The ‘Super Test-Drive Center’ is located in Guangzhou and consumers can sign up on the Tmall or Taobao app to pick up the selected car through an […]
Mondelēz International owned Lacta chocolate, has always been a symbol for love in Greece. Years of advertising have established it as the perfect gift to give on Valentine’s day. But in an age of obsession with technology and Artificial Intelligence, Lacta wanted to remind everyone that without love, life is tasteless and that what […]
“No touching!” The phrase is the bane of many children who find themselves in museums meant to teach them how to appreciate art … but instead teach them they’re bulls in china shops. This must be all the more frustrating for the blind, who mostly can’t conceive of the art at all if they can’t […]