In a previous blog post, we looked at the different areas that contributed to the success of Pokémon Go including the Pokémon brand, geolocation and Augmented Reality. Now a recent survey by Vasona Networks shows that ...
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We wanted to take a look at how brands and retailers are utilizing Pokémon Go to drive in-store Augmented Reality and geolocation engagement with their customers. For starters, if you’re not aware of Pokémon Go or why ...
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We’ve updated our website with a section featuring new Zugara computer vision and Augmented Reality engines. Our Technology page lists the latest engines we have available for Gesture Recognition, Facial Recognition and Mobile Augmented Reality and Geolocation functionality.
IVO GESTURE RECOGNITION ENGINE – ...
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Hungry Jack’s in Australia recently released a fun and innovative mobile augmented reality game for its fast food customers. Working with UserXMetrics and BBDO, Zugara helped to create this location-based augmented reality game experience. More on the game from UserX below:
Users are challenged to protect their Whopper ...
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Event Marketer magazine recently announced the winners of the 2014 Event Technology Awards, the world’s largest and only recognition program honoring the power of integrating technology into events and trade shows. The Verizon Edge Motion Capture Game was the Silver winner in the Best Use of ...
Continue Reading →Zugara now has our popular Avoid and Capture game platform available with Kinect for experiential marketing. The Avoid and Capture game platform combines the best features of motion capture, gesture interaction and augmented reality for a unique and fun gameplay experience. Avoid and Capture gameplay includes a fast-paced “avoid” bad items and “capture” good items engine that challenges players to use motions and gestures to build their score. An example of Avoid and Capture gameplay is featured ...
Continue Reading →Microsoft recently announced that the Kinect 2 will be available for developers July 15th and a general market release later this year. Zugara has been part of the Kinect 2 beta program since late 2013 and we can attest to the significant improvements available for the next generation Kinect 2 camera. The biggest notable difference? The higher resolution capability of the Kinect 2 camera. Though the Kinect 1 device is a vast improvement over regular webcams, ...
Continue Reading →The end of last year we partnered with SocialVibe and Deutsch to launch the “Anthem Blue Cross Webcam Exam” for Zynga’s network. It was a branded engagement that used augmented reality to allow people to interact with three Doctor’s tools — if you’re interested you can read more about it here. Today, I just wanted to share some of the data being released:
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Are you familiar with SocialVibe? Odds are, you’ve seen their work. They power user-initiated brand engagements on some of the web’s most visited networks. Networks like Zynga Games and Pandora. If you’d like more information on SocialVibe, Fast Company ran a great piece on them the other week.
Recently, we partnered with SocialVibe and Deutsch to create the “Anthem Blue Cross Webcam Exam” for Zynga’s network. It’s a fun, interactive Augmented Reality “Check-Up” that reminds people ...
Continue Reading →Long time readers of this blog may remember the Augmented Reality Soccer Banner we (Zugara) created for last year’s World Cup. Working as a team with BBDO and Zoic Studios we concepted and created a game for AT&T that used our proprietary motion capture technology (ZugMO) to allow people with a webcam to “head in” corner kicks (video below).
Well that banner ad is up for a Webby ...
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