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Ford C-Max augmented reality poster ad by Ogilvy & Mather and Grand Visual

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Uploaded by on Feb 23, 2011

This short film demonstrates the latest piece of innovative outdoor activity from Ford and O&M.

Ford of Britain launched an augmented reality campaign featuring the new 7 seat Grand C-MAX car on JCDecaux Innovate's mall six-sheet screens at shopping centres nationwide.

The campaign allows people to handle and explore miniaturised 3D 'virtual' models of the cars on screen and in the palm of their hand.

The campaign, created by Ogilvy & Mather in London and digital production company Grand Visual, allows users to interact with the car simply by holding their hands up to the screen. Virtual buttons allow the user to choose the colour of the car, open doors, fold the seats flat, turn the car 360 degrees and select demos of the car's key features such as Active Park Assist.

This is the first outdoor augmented reality campaign to use 3D depth imaging technology in the UK. Rather than using a printed marker or symbol as a point of reference for interaction, the user interface is based on natural movement and hand gestures allowing any passerby to immediately start interacting with the screen content. A Panasonic D-Imager camera accurately measures the users real-time spatial depth output and Inition's augmented reality software merges this real life footage with the 3D photo-real Grand C-MAX on screen.

The campaign was planned and booked by Mindshare and Kinetic and will run for two weeks at Bluewater, Greenhithe; Bullring, Birmingham; Metrocentre, Gateshead; St David's, Cardiff; Princess, East Kilbride and in Westfield, Derby. This highly innovative campaign from Ford follows on from their SMAX 'Ice Climber' activity last year which also eschewed traditional billboards in favour of more immersive technologies which allow consumers to interact more intimately with the brand.

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  • I love the  technology

  • haha! The dog jump at 0:31 is the best part of this whole thing.

  • It's called a BOOT and not a TAILGATE goddam it!

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