Blippar offers augmented reality tribute to David Bowie

Blippar offers augmented reality tribute to David Bowie

Blippar, the image recognition and augmented reality app, has created a fitting tribute to David Bowie. It is encouraging Bowie fans to download the Blippar app to create a selfie of themselves as Ziggy Stardust. Users simply ‘blipp’ the iconic image of Bowie as Ziggy Stardust or the mural of Bowie in Brixton to add […]

Blippar Acquires AR Try-on Platform Binocular

Blippar Acquires AR Try-on Platform Binocular

Ad platform Blippar, which delivers AR content and experiences triggered by real-world objects and tags, has acquired augmented reality firm Binocular, which creates AR applications and specialises in virtual try-on technology. Binocular came to the world’s attention last year when it won the Cannes Lions Bronze award for best use of technology for its work […]

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toys R Us gamifies print with interactive Christmas catalog

Toy R Us has introduced a number of digital elements, including augmented reality, to its festive magazine to ensure children keep flicking through its extensive 96 pages. Marking the point where augmented reality meets traditional shopping, eight toy-laden spreads in the catalog, entitled the ‘The Great Big Toys R Us Book of Awesome’, come to […]

Happy Finish & GroupM APAC Sign Strategic VR Agreement

Happy Finish & GroupM APAC Sign Strategic VR Agreement

Happy Finish, a pioneer and world-leader in augmented reality and virtual reality, announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with GroupM, the world’s leading media investment group owned by WPP. Happy Finish’s offices in India and China will work closely with GroupM’s content teams across the Asia Pacific region to help develop creative solutions […]

Disney App Transforms Colouring Books into 3D Experiences

Disney App Transforms Colouring Books into 3D Experiences

Disney Research, the company’s technology arm, has revealed a new app that can track and capture real-time images from a mobile device’s camera, then map them onto a 3D surface, creating an AR character that gains colour as an accompany book is filled in. The app is still in the development phase and isn’t yet […]

Blippar hires Omaid Hiwaizi as part of expansion plans

Blippar hires Omaid Hiwaizi as part of expansion plans

Omaid Hiwaizi, the UK chief strategy officer at Geometry Global, has been hired by Blippar as its first President of Global Marketing. Hiwaizi will be responsible for expanding and transforming the marketing efforts of the leading image recognition and augmented reality app and grow consumer adoption. He will initially focus on the UK and USA, […]

Space delivers world first for Lufthansa

Space delivers world first for Lufthansa

Leading European airline Lufthansa has created a world first Augmented Reality (AR) app to drive awareness of its new class of seating; Premium Economy. The pioneering app, designed by Space, represents a new and innovative type of AR experience, designed to launch via a basic pen drawing on an A4 piece of paper – typically […]

Volkswagen’s Augmented-Reality Manual, Teaches Owners To Repair Their Car

Volkswagen’s Augmented-Reality Manual, Teaches Owners To Repair Their Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LE_IocFnL0 Early this year, Volkswagen revealed their ultra-limited edition hybrid XL1 car and promised to showcase the final model at the Geneva Motor Show. The Volkswagen XL1 is one of the the most futuristic, fuel-efficient vehicles on the planet. With such a reputable name, it is only fitting to have an equally impressive repair manual to […]

Audi’s New Augmented-Reality App Is A High-Tech, Know-It-All Car Manual

To help its customers know its vehicles better, German carmaker Audi has created an innovative, augmented-reality app—named “eKurzinfo”—that uses the iPhone camera to identify the many functions of the car. Loaded with information of more than 300 elements in the car, the app serves as a high-tech, interactive alternative to the traditional, complex car manual. […]