Articles by: Kumar Swamy

TOP IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES AT MUSEUMS

Museums around the world are now incorporating digital technology within physical gallery spaces to cater to younger, more digitally-oriented generations. Tech-enhanced exhibits offer interactive, engaging, and more meaningful experiences for visitors. These immersive exhibitions allow visitors to go beyond physical limitations and place objects in context to become experiences that […]

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Tech-forward museums of the 21st Century (and how to steal from their playbooks)

With over 2 billion smartphone owners on the planet and most Americans spending at least 40% of their day using devices for things like grocery shopping, running errands, and even getting their dog walked, tech is here to stay. It’s everywhere -including museums and cultural institutions. And it is changing the way people engage […]

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What is the future of the museum?

Museums today face both overt and subtle challenges. Institutional missions must be negotiated with shifting demographics, evolving visitor expectations, funding realignment, and ever-escalating technologies. Ideally, this leads to a richer and more memorable visitor experience, and encourages visitors to become museum advocates. But often, conflicting goals and strategies can make […]

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Creating Virtual Museum Experiences – Tech Trends

With Intel’s advanced data-processing on the Sansar Social VR platform, the Smithsonian has been able to accelerate the digital 3D capture, preservation, and distribution of artefacts in its collections, so that students, educators, and the broader public can virtually access and engage with the museum’s collections from anywhere in the […]

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