CHE Proximity chases AR with new Mixed Reality practice

CHE Proximity chases AR with new Mixed Reality practice

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 […]

Israeli startup Mixed Place integrates Mixed Reality content at two of Europe’s largest retail chains

Israeli startup Mixed Place integrates Mixed Reality content at two of Europe’s largest retail chains

Israeli start-up Mixed Place, which develops a technology for creating Mixed Reality, has completed projects with two of Europe’s largest retail chains –  the pan-European supermarket chain Billa and the Belgian based global food chain Ahold-Delhaize. These chains used the company’s technology as part of a promotion campaign with the aim of increasing customer loyalty, […]

Niantic, Samsung, Deutsche Telekom & MobiledgeX unveil ‘first’ Mobile Edge MR multiplayer experience

Niantic, Samsung, Deutsche Telekom & MobiledgeX unveil ‘first’ Mobile Edge MR multiplayer experience

Niantic, the game developer behind Pokémon Go and the forthcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, has teamed up with Samsung, Deutsche Telekom, and MobiledgeX to develop the ‘world’s first’ edge-enhanced mixed reality multiplayer experience. The ‘Codename: Neon’ experience, which will be unveiled at MWC 2019, makes use of Deutsche Telekom’s edge-enabled network and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ with edge […]

Teek Mach’s Grisaille to be performed at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier Section

Teek Mach’s Grisaille to be performed at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier Section

Grisaille, the two-part mixed reality (MR) painting experience created by experimental artist Teek Mach, will be performed during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The piece is included among the New Frontier section, Sundance Film Festival’s curated collection of media works from creators pushing artistic innovation across new mediums that include VR, AR, MR and AI. […]

Google and Landmrk join forces with mixed reality campaign for Ariana Grande

Google and Landmrk join forces with mixed reality campaign for Ariana Grande

Google has joined forces with location-based experiences platform Landmrk to unveil Ariana Grande’s new YouTube Original docu-series: Dangerous Women Diaries. As part of the series, fans of Grande will have access to digital content like Grande themed wallpapers and OOH billboards throughout the US. Seth Jackson, chief executive officer of Landmrk, said: “The YouTube Originals […]

Rovio unveils new Angry Birds game for Magic Leap

Rovio unveils new Angry Birds game for Magic Leap

 Rovio Entertainment and Resolution Games revealed details of their upcoming mixed reality (MR) game for Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot. Coming this autumn, Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot will provide a first-person slingshot to let players see incredibly realistic animated characters and objects overlaid onto their actual environment, bringing […]

Ariana Grande adds mixed reality ‘Sweetener’ to album launch

Ariana Grande adds mixed reality ‘Sweetener’ to album launch

Island Records has partnered with locations-based experiences platform Landmrk to mark the release of Sweetener, the new album by Ariana Grande, with an innovative mixed reality campaign. The record label is expecting thousands of fans to travel to hotspots across the UK to unlock VIP prizes. Fans can discover the various hotspots via a dedicated website, and upon arriving […]

Why VR Now?

Why VR Now?

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality, now commonly known as XR, initially got the world – and big investors – excited with its seemingly limitless applications for film, gaming, and adult entertainment. However, in 2017 the land lies quite differently, as the now maturing technology is increasingly being applied to the more fundamental aspects […]