Nice example of Augmented Reality for museums

Augmented Reality of the Augsburg Display Cabinet The Getty Museum’s 17th-century display cabinet from Augsburg, Germany, is a type of furniture often called a “cabinet of curiosities” because of its compartments designed to contain collectible objects. Imagine holding the large tabletop cabinet in your hands. You can get a sense of the furniture’s multifaceted structure [...]

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project

The Civil War Augmented Reality Project was conceived by several public educators with technology experience and a desire to offer more interactivity to students and the general public visiting historic sites. The objective of the project is to develop and implement augmented reality services related to the American Civil War in Pennsylvania, and to modify [...]

19th Century London Today on your smartphone with Augmented Reality

Source: GIZMODO Augmented reality might be the future, but my favorite application of it yet transports you far into past. StreetMuseum—an iPhone app from the Museum of London—overlays four hundred years of historic images on today’s city streets. StreetMuseum makes creative use of Google Maps and geo-tagging to show users how London used to look. [...]

Case Study 34: Research, Augmented Reality for Museums

SOURCE: Foteini Valeonti – http://valeonti.com/ (I am currently studying MA Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne College in London and my undergraduate degree is a BSc in Computer Science from University of Piraeus, Athens Greece. I’m coming from a Greek island called Samos and I’m a new media enthusiast oriented around applications for museums. You can [...]

Case Study 33: Mobile media for cultural and historical heritage, guidelines and pilot projects

Source – Posted: May 2nd, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser How can we use mobile media to engage people in cultural and historical heritage? Last week I co-hosted a hands-on expert meeting dealing with this subject. Our objective: to find one or two pilot solutions that we can develop already. The meeting followed on the [...]

Augmented Reality: nearly but not quite

A wave of apps for iPhones and Androids has sparked the public interest in augment reality. It won’t be long before superimposing images and content onto the real world through the camera view of your smartphone will change the way you look at things. In order for AR to be really useful, researchers must chisel [...]

3D mobile augmented reality community

junaio allows you to create, explore and share information in a completely new way using augmented reality. By combining innovative online and mobile technologies you will be able to place 3D objects into the real world and share this with friends through social networks. You will be able to see any kind of location-based content [...]

Augmented Reality Past, Present and Future: How It Impacts Our Lives

Can’t stop hearing about it in the news, but wondering what makes “augmented reality” AR – the concept of overlaying computerized information, digital pop-up windows and/or virtual reality VR displays over real-world scenes and imagery – so exciting? Read more: AR How It Impacts Our Lives.

Architectuurinstituut bouwt augmented reality

Het Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (NAi) gaat in samenwerking met Layar en IN10 een Augmented Reality (AR) applicatie voor mobiele telefoons ontwikkelen. Doel van de applicatie is dat bezoekers hun mobiel op een gebouw kunnen richten, waarna ze allerlei informatie te zien krijgen, waaronder 3D modellen en maquettes. Niet alleen informatie over bestaande architectuur zal zo zichtbaar [...]

Augmented Reality Museum Experience

Augmented Reality has a big variaty of application possibilities inside museums. A completely new guidance concept, with which the visitor of the museum become virtual additional information on top of the exhibit. On the other hand historical exhibition rooms can be brought back to life with aid of the AR-technology. Source/Bron: Augmented Reality Museum Experience [...]