As advertising encroaches further into our social feeds and inevitably, our daily lives, it has become harder and harder to tell the difference between paid and organic content. Influencers mask sponsorships as lifestyle posts, commercials play between nearly every online video we watch, and product ads are served to us mere minutes after we’ve searched […]
- Appointment follows a five-way competitive pitch - AR visualiser will give fire commanders ability to ‘see through walls’ in order to protect firefighters in high-risk scenarios
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service has announced the appointment of Brandwidth, the digital innovation agency which specialises in solving complex technical challenges, to a major new innovation brief. The £500k project is funded by Innovate UK and SRBI, in conjunction with GovTech Catalyst and the Government Digital Service. The appointment follows an RFI process […]
CHE Proximity has announced the launch of a new practice, CHEP Mixed Reality, which will be spearheaded by Charlotte Bruton. The new offering will leverage CHEP’s existing advanced engineering team currently organised across commerce cloud, marketing cloud, ad cloud and data cloud teams. Bruton is a Frost Collective alumnus and recent McCann National Digital and […]
Blend Media, which provides premium 360/VR content for brands including Disney and McCann, has launched Blend Market – a platform which helps clients find and hire skilled professional creators of immersive content and experiences across the VR/AR/MR spectrum. With the rapid advancement of new technologies and increasingly powerful mobile devices, major platforms including Facebook, Google […]
To celebrate Manchester City’s first home game of this year’s English Premier League (EPL) football season, Etihad Airways – the club’s official shirt and stadium sponsor – took the opportunity to create a unique fan experience and drive engagement using the power of augmented reality (AR). Etihad Airways worked with Snapchat and its regional Lens Studio Partner, Tactical, to conceptualize and […]
Cheil Worldwide has used augmented reality and virtual reality to bring the Great Gate of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897) back to life, more than 104 years after it was destroyed. The Donuimun Gate, one of the Four Great Gates in the City Wall of Seoul, was destroyed in 1915 during the Japanese colonial period. In […]
As augmented reality becomes more of a transformational technology for the marketing industry, more brands are adopting it in various ways. Coca-Cola decided to invite viewers into its immersive AR plunge through its app in collaboration with Ogilvy Mexico and VFX house Timber. Santa Monica-based Timber worked with Ogilvy to create 3D elements needed for the interactive AR experience where users […]
On Saturday 17th August, mobile network operator Orange, Google, and experiential innovation agency Wildbytes treated football fans to an epic spectacle. Marking the first augmented reality synchronised show in Spain, fans at the Celta de Vigo vs. Real Madrid game saw a gigantic superhero football player appearing on the pitch in augmented reality. Unveiled on the […]
Toyota just launched a new fully integrated campaign for the all-new 2020 GR Supra, in collaboration with Road & Track, bridging print and digital to create the first marker-less Web AR advertising campaign activated by print media. Tapping into the nostalgia of fold-out car posters, the national campaign in the US, features a custom 29.5” x 21.25” poster, which […]
Google has launched a beta feature in Maps that enables users to get walking directions via augmented reality (AR). The ‘Live View’ feature displays arrows and directions in the ‘real world’ through the user’s camera. The search giant has been testing the feature with its Local Guides and the Pixel community over the past few […]