Video: Another kind of Museum Augmented Reality
Posted in Technology on 18. Feb, 2009
I love finding these kind of videos and working out in my mind how to use them in museums. (Ignore the advert at the beginning)
This Wearable Computer Display from the students at the MIT Media Lab replaces the camera and view screen version with (from what I can tell) a backpack, a mini projector and coloured tape on your fingers so people can act out that Minority Report scene anywhere.
I like how this system can present information (Hell, Tom Cruise manages a 7 month long investigation in about 15 minutes using it) and there’s another video showing how it can work as pretty functional operating system. (Click on menu on the video above, it should be the first related video).
Only snag, it does seem to require a lot of blank wall space to work, something I imagine to be in short supply in museums. I’m also not sure I would want to be looking at a painting as another person scribbles over it. But a bit of redesign can you could be manipulating information all over the place inside a museum.
(Via Luke)
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