AR’s Latest Conquest: Your Shoes

One product category in particular is beginning to gain traction in AR shopping: shoes. Amazon recently dove into AR shoe try-ons and now Google has joined the mix. Is there a trend forming? We examine drivers & dynamics.
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Qualcomm’s AR2 is the First Chip Built Just for AR

Qualcomm has announced the latest addition to its fleet: the Snapdragon AR2. Built for AR glasses, it joins the Snapdragon XR chips used across 60+ AR and VR headsets, splitting off into AR-dedicated design.
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Can Walmart Popularize AR Shopping?

There are several brands and retailers jumping into AR shopping. But perhaps none are as tapped into everyday consumers as Walmart. Can its latest forays into immersive shopping boost AR adoption?
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Can Amazon and Snap Bring Scale to AR Shopping?

Snap and Amazon have collaborated to bring more shoppable AR lenses to Snapchat. Products can be discovered, tried on and purchased – an end-to-end flow to streamline shopping for AR-forward Snapchat users.
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Is Snapchat+ a Model For Social Apps?

Beyond optimizing one’s ad revenue model, what about new revenue streams altogether? Snap has perhaps executed this with the greatest success with Snapchat+. We break down best practices and results so far.
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Will Small Businesses Buy Into the Metaverse?

Whatever the metaverse becomes, it will likely be adapted for marketing purposes. And like past emerging tech, this could start with big brands, then trickle down to the long-tail SMB market. How will it all play out?
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What Can We Learn From the Wendyverse?

Rather than getting carried away with selling virtual goods, the metaverse should simply be considered an additive marketing channel for brand engagement. We examine Wendy’s metaverse marketing play as a model.
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Magic Leap’s Second Act Begins

After some ups and downs, Magic Leap is in the midst of a considerable turnaround. At the center of that effort is Magic Leap 2. We spent a week with the device and break down our observations & analysis.
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Google Inches Closer to the Metavearth

Google’s annual Search On event featured several moves that advance the search giant’s ambitions to build an Internet of places. Also what we call the metavearth, this is all about adding digital depth and dimension to the physical world.
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Has Niantic Found AR’s Peanut Butter & Chocolate Moment?

By launching Lightship for Web, has Niantic merged two of AR’s most powerful modalities: geo-location and web? We unpack the drivers and strategic implications for this peanut butter & chocolate moment.
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