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Playing in the Museum Sandbox
Readers of CFM’s TrendsWatch reports and followers of this Blog will know of my fascination with the emerging business model of museums running co-working spaces. It’s such a genius use of museum resources (staff expertise, visitors, … -
Me/We/Here/There: museums and the matrix of place-based augmented devices
“It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.” —Charles Stross Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are portals to … -
Why VR?: Enhancing IRL (In Real Life) Experiences for visitors to the British Museum
2016 is clearly a break-out year for Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, with numerous companies releasing relatively affordable, consumer-ready devices. Still, when I was writing TrendsWatch 2016 last fall, I found relatively few museums … -
Experiments in Virtual Reality at The Museum of Flight
TrendsWatch 2016 will go up on the web at the end of this week! And (spoiler alert) one of the topics I cover this year is the explosive rise of Augmented and Virtual Reality devices. The technology behind AR/VR is rapidly becoming more … -
What Museums Can Learn from the NYT’s Google Cardboard Project
Lookie what I found bundled in with my Sunday newspaper: It’s a free Google Cardboard device from the New York Times. I promptly downloaded the app and started watching the 3-D, immersive short films they have already released: a profile … -
Is Augmented Reality the Ultimate Museum App: Some Strategic Considerations
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Mobile Apps for Museums, available from the AAM Press. In the past year, the innovative forms of augmented reality (AR) appearing on …
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