Earlier this week, our CEO Matt Szymczyk spoke on a panel at the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara. The topic was “AR for E-Commerce”, and embedded below is his presentation. In it, he discusses our history of innovation; webcam usage stats; the fact that our product The Webcam Social Shopper is completely ready for market; and, findings from our Usability Testing.
Sorry about the recent influx of “Zugara News” blog posts, but we keep having exciting stuff to share with you. Today’s news is that we were on the News! KTLA’s Rich Demuro profiled our Ecommerce Augmented Reality Software, “The Webcam Social Shopper” on the morning news today. As you’ll see in the piece, shop owners are definitely excited about the product. Admittedly, it feels great to have a testimonial like that on tape :-).
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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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Zugara is proud to announce the launch of “Plug & Play”, the newest version of our Augmented Reality Ecommerce Software, “The Webcam Social Shopper” (WSS). WSS Plug & Play is a product that integrates right into retailer’s ecommerce product pages (seamlessly, just like a “zooming” feature does) and provides shoppers with a more engaging, personal and emotionally satisfying way to determine whether an apparel item’s style and color are truly right for them.
Today’s launch ...
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This is an op-ed written by Matthew Szymczyk, CEO of Zugara, that was originally published in AdAge on February 28, 2011. The entire article can be found here. You can also read the full article below:
Augmented reality — that’s just one of the latest marketing catchphrases, right?
The traditional definition of augmented reality, or AR, refers to the overlay of digital information on a live video feed. If you’ve watched an NFL game on TV ...
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UPDATE 1: Zugara is proud to announce that we were awarded The DEMOgod Award at DEMO Spring 2011.
UPDATE 2: We were interviewed by InLab Ventures directly after our presentation, video of that interview has been added below.
For those of you that missed the live stream of our launch at DEMO (on 2/28/11), below is the video of our presentation. Don’t worry, we had to keep it under six minutes, so it’s short.
As you’ll see, we’re working to ...
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Launching at DEMO: Zugara’s E-Commerce Augmented Reality Software Is Now Truly Markerless
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Hey folks, today is a gigantic day for us at Zugara, and we just wanted to share the news with you. We’re currently privileged to be presenting the latest advancement to our Augmented Reality E-Commerce Software, “The Webcam Social Shopper”, at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs. The latest advancement? The technology is now markerless. Truly markerless. We’ve developed a way to get rid of the paper marker and allow an apparel ...
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We recently launched our second and third Augmented Reality projects for Nestle and thought you might be interested in some of the details. This time we were tasked with concepting and developing two unique advergames for Juicy Juice. Like our first project (for Nesquik), Juicy Juice was interested in creating unique advergames that people can play within their webcams by utilizing their motion to play the game rather than traditional controllers (i.e. the mouse and/or ...
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