Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Content marketing and search now involve a combination of media (blogs, video, social platforms, podcasts, etc.), and they must adapt to the ways human can now engage with this content in virtual and augmented reality. What must content marketing and search do to remain competitive? How must they redefine themselves? How to respect the lessons that intertwined them, on these new frontiers?

Technologies which can tap into the full spectrum of our senses, are the adaptations that will eventually be required by content marketing and search. For the sake of this article, we will focus only on vision. Until recently, most content marketing and search were accessed via a highly compressed and forcefully artificial medium of 2D screens. In VR and AR, there are typically two screens, close to one’s eyes, permitting users to view content in a three-dimensional way.

The simplest way to begin adapting content marketing and search, is to remake it for 3D viewing and interaction. Take the following history as an analogy: Google actively ranks results lower for sites not optimized for responsively mobile layouts.

Why? More than half of all people accessing the web do so via mobile. As developing countries come online with another billion+ users and even more devices (nearly all mobile), they will be skipping the desktop era and joining us right alongside the mobile one....