Press Release: 3D Augmented Reality Scenes – the Next Frontier of AR for the Enterprise

Watch Kaon President & CEO Gavin Finn debut Kaon 3D AR Scenes on stage at the most recent AR in Action Industry Summit at MIT.

 

 

Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D marketing and sales applications for global B2B brands, today announced that they are continuing to innovate new technologies and applications for AR (augmented reality) in the enterprise, with their release of 3D AR Scenes.

“3D scenes in augmented reality have been limited to gamification,” said Joshua Smith, CTO and Founder of Kaon Interactive. “We’re taking this concept to the enterprise in a way that breaks through the clutter.”

Over the last year, Kaon has elevated the AR business use case from placing photo-realistic, interactive 3D Product Models ‘at scale’ within a real physical space, to now placing interactive 3D scenes (laboratory, data center, office, manufacturing plant, etc.) within a real physical space, in augmented reality.

Interacting with 3D scenes in augmented reality are more compelling engagements for customers and prospects because they can take it off their ‘screen’ and put it into their actual environment. B2B companies have struggled with how to make buying engagements more memorable and compelling. Now, Kaon’s 3D AR Scenes gives customers the ability to walk around their environment, envision how a solution works to solve their business or technical challenges, and amplify the customers’ receptiveness to their differentiated value proposition.

View a quick Kaon 3D AR Scenes video.

With the release of iOS 11 and the launch of Apple’s ARkit (and soon Google’s ARCore), Kaon Interactive is driving AR adoption in the B2B space, with 50+ live enterprise AR applications in use, by hundreds of thousands of customers, sales teams and channel partners globally.

Kaon Interactive has a 20-year head start on other AR providers, because of its continuous technology innovation in 3D interactive experiences, and its extensive B2B global customer base (such as Cisco, IBM, GE, Siemens, HPE, Abbott, and BD) that have been using Kaon’s digital platform for years. This global platform is used to create and deploy photo-realistic, 3D interactive digital product models and solution storytelling applications to sales teams, marketers, and customers in more than 100 countries.

“The effectiveness of marketing and sales experiences is dramatically increased when customers can see your products and solutions appear in their actual physical space and can then contextualize the benefits of that solution because they have that clear mental image of how that product fits and works,” said Gavin Finn, President & CEO of Kaon Interactive. “It truly creates an emotional connection with prospects that transcends traditional sales and marketing relationships.”

To learn more about Kaon’s 3D AR Scenes, visit www.kaon.com.

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Kaon Driving Use of Virtual Reality for Enterprise Sales and Marketing

Kaon VR at SuperComputing tradeshow

As one customer recently noted, so many B2B companies are using virtual reality for the technology, for the ‘wow,’ to draw potential customers. Yet, those customers walk away remembering the fun they had playing a virtual reality game in a trade show booth and nothing about the company, brand or products.

Virtual reality becomes a powerful and effective sales and marketing vehicle when the experience communicates brand and product messages to potential customers — who then come away with brand education and a memorable engagement.

VentureBeat, a leading source of technology news for executives, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts, just published an article by Kaon Interactive President and CEO Gavin Finn on how and why virtual reality is poised for big enterprise sales.

Read the article, and learn more about Kaon VR® here.

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Top 5 Blog Posts of 2017

Top 5 Kaon Interactive blog posts

It is always interesting at the end of the year to look back to see what advancements we made, what topics trended, what new technology impacted our lives and our jobs, and what changed from the beginning of the year to the end and from last year to this year.

In that vein, let’s look at the most popular posts on this blog from the past year.

 

#5: Software Advice Asks Kaon CEO How to Improve Sales and Marketing Strategy Through Effective Brand Guidelines

marketing team planning and strategy brand meeting

Marketers perpetually seek ways to refine marketing and sales strategy to increase ROI and the number of qualified leads entering the funnel. Positioning your brand is the foundation of any marketing strategy, and Software Advice sought the advice of a number of B2B marketing experts, including Kaon Interactive CEO and President Gavin Finn, on the topic.

 

#4: How Kaon Interactive Became the Leader in Enterprise Sales and Marketing Apps

Colin Barry of VentureFizz tries Kaon VR

Colin Barry of VentureFizz was blown away by his coffee shop virtual reality demonstration. (Coming soon to a coffee shop near you! Kaon VR® has been making the rounds to coffee shops across the country this year.) He wrote about how enterprise companies use augmented reality and virtual reality to engage prospects and customers and to better show complex products and solution stories.

 

#3: 3 Ways to Keep Customers Engaged with Your Mobile Marketing Apps

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Despite the newness of and fascination with augmented reality and virtual reality in 2017, mobile remains a formidable technological tool in marketing and sales. Your sales people always have their smartphones on hand, and your prospects and customers, most likely, keep their mobile devices close as well. This creates an obvious and effective channel for reaching and engaging your target audience. How do you develop the best mobile application to achieve your organization’s sales goals? We covered what you need to know to be successful with your mobile application.

 

#2: Press Release: Kaon Interactive’s Virtual and Augmented Reality B2B Solutions Launch on the ASUS ZenFone AR

We are as surprised as you are that a press release made it to the second spot on our top five most popular blog posts of the year, but as the first smartphone equipped with both augmented reality and virtual reality technology, it set off a shift in adoption of and access to these technologies.

 

#1: Why Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Will be Important for Your Business

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The top post of the year comes from Entrepreneur‘s coverage of augmented reality and virtual reality necessity in the enterprise. As the article states, however, it is not the technology itself that should cause the excitement but what the technology enables us to achieve: telling a compelling story to prospects and customers.

 

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