Augmented Reality in Luxury Brand Communication in The Digital Transformation Process: L'Oreal Example
Abstract
In recent years, the reflections of changes
especially in information communication technologies have been encountered in
almost all fields. However, the developments in internet and the
transformations in internet-based applications are also noteworthy. It is
possible to say that the communication process between the brand and the target
group is also included in this new media environment and it is integrated with
this process in internet (web) based applications. This harmony and adaptation
process in luxury brand communication can be said to be relatively slower and
more cautious than other brand types. However, it can be said that luxury
brands have also started to adapt to digital applications, transformations such
as augmented reality (AR) or artificial intelligence (AI). From this point of
view, how luxury brands are involved in internet-based applications and the
process of digital transformation along with it and its description based on
the related applications form the main subject of this study. In the first part
of this study, how the digital transformation is experienced within the
framework of luxury brand communication, to what extent they can be included
and their applications related to augmented reality will be described. In the
second part, this application of L'Oreal brand, which is one of the limited
number of examples, which especially uses augmented reality applications, is
included and carried out at https://www.lorealparisusa.co the official web page
will be subject to content analysis. In this sense, the content of web pages
will be analysed. The aim of this research is to define the applications of
augmented reality in the digital transformation process and to evaluate and
reveal the relationship between them on the basis of the concerned sample in
luxury brand communication. Since the related sample is in the report entitled
"Global Powers of Luxury Consumption 2018", which is one of the
researches that the Deloitte research organization makes intended for luxury
brands, it will be analyzed in this study. In the related literature, the
specificity of this study is important because of the relatively limited number
of studies included in this study.
Keywords
Luxury brand communication,digital transformation,augmented reality
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