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each page is covered with a stark black and white geometric shape and a web address leading to the book's website. To read the book, consumers must visit that site and hold each page up in front of their webcam, one at a time. 

Ditto, a online eyewear shop that uses your computer's webcam to show you how you'll look in your new frames. Follow the site's guided setup to create your "ditto" then start virtually trying on pairs. The site makes recommendations based on budget and style, and you can share your ditto via email or Facebook to get feedback from friends. Ditto stocks designers from Ray-Ban to Jeremy Scott and can make most frames prescription by simply emailing a photo of your script. Still concerned about buyer's remorse? Ditto offers free returns within 90 days of purchase.

Online payment company Jumio has announced the launch of Netverify: an image recognition technology that allows merchants to remotely scan credit cards and IDs with a webcam or phone.

FB app where you challenge an owl in a staring contest on webcam

bratz dolls are implementing AR to their products.  girls can hold up a mask to a webcam to trigger an ar game by Total Immersion.  she can paint the mask or her face and print/save the image.

"Shopper Sciences, a market research agency, used Affectiva's technology to track the emotions of shoppers over Black Friday last year. They asked in-store shoppers to wear the Affectiva sensor wristband and online shoppers to allow a webcam to watch their faces, in an effort to understand how different emotions might affect spending. They found that people online and in-store experienced similar levels of excitement and stress while shopping, but those who browsed online before heading into stores were less stressed and more confident - and spent an average of $400 more."

intorduced a series of webcam effects for hangouts

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No more post-it notes over your web camera

Interesting news in the live events and instant shopping front from some upcoming Gucci and Burberry executions.

It seems like a no-brainer, but why don't the thousands and thousands of online clothing retailers offer customers a way to stand in front of a Webcam and virtually try things on? Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20037457-52.html#ixzz1FSgw46Rt

interesting idea for L'Oreal- online location where people can tune in to watch celebs and makeup stars putting on makeup or applying it. could be integrated through an app that turns the screen into a mirror on a laptop with a webcam or iphone4, etc

interactive youtube experience promoting Hugo Boss' new fragrance.  people turn their heads to control the film