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Augmented Reality is gaining popularity among marketers and customers alike. Customers are getting a kick out of interacting with creative AR ads, like Burger King’s Burn That Ad campaign. Marketers are using augmented reality technology to elevate advertising to a new level of entertainment. Yet, there is still a lot of confusion about what augmented reality is and how it works.

The cleverness of Burger King’s AR campaign goes beyond using their competitors’ ads against them. They integrated their long-standing selling point of flame-broiled burgers through the flame broiling of others’ marketing materials. The AR app also includes a payment feature that puts the free Whopper directly in a user’s cart. This is ingenious on four levels:It uses brand familiarity (flame-broil) to get their message across. It takes a user experience and turns it into a customer experience.