
Live from Facebook-owned Oculus’s annual VR conference: Day 1
Virtual reality has largely remained stuck in the future, posing a dilemma for marketers. But Facebook-owned VR company Oculus is...

At MarTech conference, tech evangelist Robert Scoble envisions how AR and VR will transform marketin
Robert Scoble wearing glasses that are displaying 360-degree video from the camera he’s holding Fasten your seatbelts. Those weren’t the...

USA Today Network’s VR ad studio head: We’ve shown there’s an audience for VR ads
USA Today Network’s in-house studio, GET Creative, developed 360-degree/virtual reality branded content for Pure Michigan promoting...

System 1 Research launches a VR testing tool for shopping
You’re pushing a grocery cart down an aisle in Walmart, and you pause to grab and toss in a bag of candy. Just another day at the store,...

Snapchat rolls out Sponsored 3D World Lenses, bringing its AR format to advertisers
Snapchat debuted its latest augmented-reality ad format on Thursday. Advertisers can now create their own branded versions of Snapchat’s...

Report: Amazon readying launch of Alexa-powered smart glasses
According to a report in Financial Times, Amazon is working on “smart glasses” powered by its intelligent agent, Alexa. The report says...

5 futuristic advertising channels and the first rule of advertising dynamics
several hundred ads a day (PDF) as they peruse the internet, watch TV or consume other ad-supported media. Surprisingly, this number has...

Apple’s ARKit launches a new channel: The hidden layers of reality
An ARKit-generated, moving car on a real driveway Say goodbye to living in just one plane of reality. That’s because Apple announced...

WeLens introduces software to manage group screenings of 360-degree video VR
VR is rapidly becoming a way for brands to directly demonstrate the user experience of their products, or to visualize the care with...

Google shows off its VR advertising concept
Google presented an early look Wednesday at how it’s starting to think about ads for virtual reality applications. A team working in...

Tobii Pro now invisibly tracks users’ eyes in VR
A combined image, showing attention spots where a VR wearer might be looking in a virtual grocery store. Virtual reality is just...

Web browsing coming to VR headsets, AR coming to the web via Chrome
Google is bringing the Chrome browser to virtual reality (VR) and also bringing augmented reality (AR) into the Chrome browser. On the...

Wayin opens a store where marketers can reuse their most successful campaigns
Why can’t digital ad and marketing campaigns be repurposed, the way you might reuse page templates from a website? That’s the idea behind...

Forrester: Virtual Reality is not yet ready for marketers
A test drive in a VR car showroom If you’re a marketer rubbing your hands together in anticipation of the virtual campaigns you’ll run in...

Google releases Chrome version with the first browser support for WebVR
A 3-D VR interior from Matterport This week, Google is updating its Chrome browser for Android with the first browser support for Web VR...

Report: Consumers feel positive about immersive technologies
A test drive in a VR car showroom After decades of being “just around the corner,” immersive technologies have finally arrived. But the...

Hey Santa, here’s our 2016 ‘Marketing Naughty & Nice’ list
Even a Jewish guy like me knows that Santa — trying like everyone else to satisfy his customers — can barely keep up. Like many of us,...

Report: Apple working on augmented reality glasses for potential 2018 release
According to reports, Apple is developing digital glasses. However, if the product appears at all, it won’t be until 2018 at the...

Google’s virtual game changer: Leveraging 360 VR video & image optimization for SEO
With little fanfare, earlier this year Google rolled out a way to embed 360-degree VR media for headsets in search engine optimizable web...
























