In Focus

4 brilliant augmented reality campaigns

"Avatar"

Excitement around James Cameron's "Avatar" created opportunities for several AR tie-ins to the movie. McDonald's launched a site called "Experience Pandora" that users can tap via a "Thrill Card," which can be cut out from McDonald's boxes or printed out at home. According to Variety, Coca-Cola also placed Avatar related content on 140 million cans, while Mattel created action figures with special AR tags that provide additional content. What is important in the Avatar AR executions is the ability to deepen engagement with the Avatar story and brand across multiple channels and partners. The more coordinated these efforts, the better the experience will be for consumers.



 

Comments

Linda Perry-Lube
Linda Perry-Lube February 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM

I think that the American Museum of Natural History's use of AR in the Extreme Mammals exhibition website was a creative and engaging way of bringing the in-museum exhibition to life online. See http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/extrememammals/extreme-3d/index.php

Reid Carr
Reid Carr February 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM

My favorite, practical AR example is still Ray Ban's Virtual Mirror. If you haven't seen it, I suggest you check it out. Finally a way to help people get over a significant e-commerce hurdle: trying stuff on.

Roger Darnell
Roger Darnell February 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM

Love the article and videos -- thank you Devora and Lori. Cheers! -- R. Darnell

Guillermo Corea
Guillermo Corea February 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM

Thanks for the samples. I'm a big believer in AR and mobile marketing. Great job on the part of Samsung. Perfect use of AR.

Ramakrishna Gudipudi
Ramakrishna Gudipudi February 3, 2010 at 8:44 AM

Hi Devora, Great piece of article and i agree that AR is the cutting edge technology and will dominate the market through out the year 2010 i believe ...