AR technology has made huge strides over the past few years, making the jump from the gaming world into attractions and museums across the globe. Museum AR can now be found in a variety of institutions around the world. For instance, ...
With “The Met Unframed,” online through Feb. 15 at themetunframed.com, you can “visit” four exhibitions and the Great Hall, and interact with 46 works from the New York museum’s collection. There also are “challenges” to bring the art ...
Virtual Museums and Modern Technology: An Exploration of What Is and What Might Be Museums have long been places of wonder and mystery. They are a place where youngsters can enter for a nominal fee, or for free at some locations, ...
Throughout the pandemic, arts institutions have been forced to bolster their online presence. Some efforts have succeeded — usually when they resist trying to replicate the real-world experience. But many fall flat. A Zoom tour can ...
The year 2020 ushered in major societal changes. The hotly contested U.S. presidential election, racial justice protests; the pandemic; stock market volatility; the Australian, Amazon and American wildfires — all of these and many more ...
Over the past decade, Virtual Reality (VR) has gone mainstream. VR experiences can now be found at theme parks, FECs, retail malls and even museums.
The Ontario Regiment Museum contains the largest collection of operational historical military vehicles in North America, some of which are loaned out for TV and film productions, reenactments, and parades. To maintain these living ...
Online Educational Resources, Virtual Visits, Community Service Among Ways Museums are Adapting A visit to a museum can be educational, inspiring, calming, or encouraging. Museums bring people together, expand our horizons, teach us ...
The basic principle of augmented reality is to add computer-generated objects (CGI) to the real world we see around us. In order to “trick” the eye and make us believe that the CGI objects are really there in front of us, the augmented ...
There’s no way around it: the COVID pandemic has hit the museum industry hard. But museums are a resilient bunch and many of them have come up with novel ways to keep serving up history, culture, and education. How? They’ve gone ...
