Augmented & Virtual Reality
Facebook looks to expand AR/VR technology with CTRL-labs acquisition
Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's VP of AR and VR, announced the company behind the neural monitoring wristband would be joining Facebook's Reality...
A new customer experience, how AI is changing marketing
In the summer of 1956, 10 scientists and mathematicians gathered at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College to brainstorm a new concept...
The retailers and brands delivering first-rate mobile AR experiences
At MarTech West, Digi-Capital's Isabelle Hierholtz talked mobile AR strategy, and how brands like Houzz, Olay and Walmart are successfully...
How AR is whetting restaurant patrons’ appetites
Startup Kabaq has developed a highly realistic method for presenting food that looks good enough to...
Verizon Media survey on 5G: Consumers expect better AR and video
Advertisers are anticipating new creative formats, better location-based targeting and better access to quality...
What impact will 5G have on marketing and advertising?
Carriers and device makers are rolling out the super-fast wireless service this year, so we asked experts about the potential for marketing and...
How to keep PPC accounts healthy when using automation
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, Moore’s Law and ongoing automation by the big search engines are accelerating the evolution of PPC....
How martech vendors jockeyed for position in 2018
From responding to regulation to paving the way for new partnerships and technological possibilities, here's a look at the big moves marketing...
Expedia-owned vacation sites HomeAway, VRBO now provide unified virtual tours
Using spherical photos from any supported source, the sites convert them to a single file format and user...
Snapchat’s Lens Creative Partners program helps brands find AR filter creators
Introduced on Monday, the program is set to have have more than 100 certified AR Lens creators certified over the next several...
Nat Geo and Verizon’s Oath programmatically place ads in VR for ‘Mars’ series
The ads -- a static image and a video trailer -- display inside VR environments, the first commercial use for a capability Oath announced last...
AR/VR agency Vertebrae launches web-based AR platform for online retailers
Called Axis, it enables online visitors to virtually “try on” hats and other accessories and interact with objects in 360-degree...
National Cinemedia offers first in-theater AR game for a movie
Promoting characters from Disney’s upcoming ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ the 30 second game is the latest in the cinema ad network’s...
An AR Halloween pre-show invades movie theaters
National Cinemedia started employing augmented reality in thousands of theaters last spring, and is now launching its first one for ghosts’...
Shopify now lets stores create AR experiences for iOS 12
The announcement comes on the heels of Apple's release of iOS 12, which includes new functionality that provides AR experiences from within a...
iOS 12 release gives users more power, marketers more options
Marketers will find opportunities to connect with users through enhanced AR capabilities, new notifications options and...
AR breaks out of the app and onto the mobile browser
8th Wall Web allows brands to offer interactive AR content without forcing their customers to download an app or scan an image marker such as a...
Tobii adds eye-tracking for 360-degree videos
After last year’s addition of VR eye-tracking, the Sweden-based firm now allows marketers to map gaze-trails in the major virtual...
Blippar unveils indoor visual positioning system to anchor AR
Employing machine vision to recognize mapped objects, the company says it can determine which way a user is looking and can calculate...
When should marketers use AR and when VR?
A marketing tech exec offers some rules of...