Wednesday 22 April 2009

Augmented Reality

Augmented reality has been around for a while but it seems to be everywhere at the moment!
So what exactly is it?
It's an environment that mixes both virtual and real-world elements.
The possibilities of using it in advertising are massive, particularly now nearly everyone has a camera on their phone.
One of my favourite examples has been in making baseball cards appealing to the video gaming generation.



Links to other examples:

Mini, Wikitude, Twitter Feed, iPhone, Game

UPDATE:
Interesting article in AdWeek this week.

"Marketers should think about how to leverage this kind of technology in retail locations, on products or in static advertising -- linking their tangible assets with useful content from the web and added interactivity."

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