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Last month, Crayola officially opened the Crayola Experience Theme Park in Orlando, Florida. The Crayola Experience features many new and exciting digital technologies geared towards children and creativity. The most exciting part though? Crayola debuted 3 different Augmented Reality-based experiences including a new 3D Virtual Dressing Room simulation.
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Zugara is happy to announce that we were 1 of 13 companies selected by the USPTO to participate in the upcoming Smithsonian Innovation Festival. The festival will be held on September 26 & 27 and is a collaboration between the Smithsonian and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The Innovation Festival highlights inventors and invention and provides visitors ...
Continue Reading →With the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star break in full-swing, MLB.com and Aramark leveraged multiple Virtual Mirror stations to promote All-Star Game apparel. Each Virtual Mirror station features Zugara’s WSS for Kiosks Virtual Dressing Room software with Kinect 2 cameras.
Visitors to the MLB.com store at the All-Star Fan Fest in ...
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In Brazil, Museu do Futebol (Museum of Football) has deployed 2 Kinect-based installations for museum visitors to try on virtual football (soccer) jerseys. The virtual dressing room experience is part of an interactive Libertadores exhibition and allows visitors to virtually join iconic Brazilian football teams. The installations are cornerstones of the exhibition will be available with our WSS for Kiosks software throughout the year.
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Forbes recently posted a great infographic showing future trends in retail including virtual dressing rooms. This corresponds to other data we have been seeing lately showing that Virtual Dressing Rooms were rated as highest Augmented Reality use case for retail conversions. CMO’s have also selected Augmented Reality as a future ...
Continue Reading →Zugara is pleased to announce 2 new promotions we are offering for our WSS for Web and WSS for Kiosks virtual dressing room products.
Our WSS for Kiosks promotion is available for our virtual dressing room software optimized for Kinect v1 and Kinect v2. The promotion offers 20% off our quarterly or yearly licensing and is available until March 31st, 2015. You can view ...
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Virtual Dressing Rooms were rated highest Augmented Reality use case for potential retail conversions in a recent Accenture survey. The survey entitled, Life of the Digital Edge: How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Customer Experience and Drive Growth, can be viewed here (PDF).
Along with the interesting Augmented Reality use case survey results (pictured above), ...
Continue Reading →2014 was a banner year for Augmented Reality Retail. 2nd generation technologies were finally available leading to more exciting AR experiences across multiple retail channels. At Zugara, we had an exciting year working with Kinect 2, Beacons and Mobile AR apps utilizing geolocation and geofencing.
2014 included a mix of current AR technology deployments as well as exciting 2nd generation devices that will drive ...
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The Webcam Social Shopper virtual dressing room software for ecommerce sites has now launched in China! Based in Shanghai, Quantum Factory is a platform for innovative and exciting designers to manufacture, market and sell their imaginative apparel designs. Our WSS for Web software is ...
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Zugara’s WSS For Kiosks virtual dressing room software was recently optimized with Kinect for Windows v2. Our first installation with Kinect v2 debuted with the Phillies Major League Baseball Team at Citizen’s Bank Stadium in Philadelphia. Working with ...