Augmented Reality for Digital Marketing

Tianfeng Wu
Marketing in the Age of Digital
2 min readDec 1, 2019

The future of digital marketing will be closely related to the developments of augmented reality. Augmented reality at first appeared to come straight out of science fiction as the digital lens is able to directly modify and mediate the experiences of the individual looking into the outside world. The implications of augmented reality for digital marketing will be manifested in a few ways. The first is the potential seamless integration of the user’s senses, especially sight, with the Internet. The easiest example that can be identified is if a user sees something in real life, they would be able to directly connect to the internet via augmented reality and connecting with vendors through the internet and circumventing the need for a mobile phone. In a way, this can be transformative because it would surpass the ultimate mobile device and possibly pointing the way towards a new technological innovation in the way that Apple had achieved.

What is most intriguing about the potential of augmented reality is that there are no market leaders or proper solution to what it might bring for digital marketing or any other aspects of society. The significance of this is that there is a great deal of potential and an open slate in the imaginative sphere that could be generated in terms of the solution. It is open to anyone’s imagination as to what the future could look like with the integration and implementation of augmented reality.

This trend will also be persistent throughout society because of the potential value that it creates. In a way, in combination with the 5G network that is developing and that the technology would be firmly integrated into society in this regard. This sense of integration will always be present in the future because it is the future direction that technological development is trending towards. There is significant value that can be created through augmented reality, which is why this trend will continue to persist for the future, especially within the forseeable future.

Recommending this to a client may be difficult right now because the conceptualization of any of the products is still young and uncertain. There would be a great deal risk being taken, especially in terms of how products are being designed and utilized because there is no widespread adoption of the product. Therefore, any client who wishes to utilize the technology needs to be extremely cautious about how it would be creating value for the user and the business.

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Marketing in the Age of Digital
Marketing in the Age of Digital

Published in Marketing in the Age of Digital

thoughts and reflections on digital-first marketing from NYUSPS Integrated Marketing Grad Students

Tianfeng Wu
Tianfeng Wu

Written by Tianfeng Wu

BS Economics Mathematics in University of Southern California,MS Intergrated marketing in New York University