Cabinet Exhibition
14 May - 25 June 2011
Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth
How to View the Augmented Reality Objects
- You will need an iPhone 4 / iPhone 3GS or Android mobile or iPad2 equipped
with an augmented reality browser.
- To get the browser, go to the iPhone App Store or the Android Market
and search for “Junaio”.
- Install Junaio (free).
- Search Junaio for “Scope” and select the “Scope” channel.
- Point your smart phone at the questions you will see around the Scope exhibit to find
the answers and experience the potential of Scope.
Project Description
Scope
vladimir geroimenko and roberto fraquelli
Too often precious objects are locked away
in cabinets or trapped behind barriers that make it harder for us to relate and
engage with what is being displayed. Of course these objects need to be
protected and preserved, but they also require deeper levels of interaction if
we really want to make a significant connection and meaning from what we see.
Scope is a digital viewing compass that
encourages the on-looker to study an object from different perspectives. Firstly
by persuading us to look all around a display so that we understand it from
three dimensions; and secondly by looking at an object through smart digital
devices to get a 4th dimension.
By the simple use of a ‘smart application’
that can be downloaded to your phone or ipad museums and galleries can provide
an augmented and customized experience to their visitors. By pointing your
device at an encrypted marker placed close to an object viewers will be able to
see a superimposed image on their screens. This technology has the potential to
show an otherwise incomplete broken vase fully restored, or an image of
coloured skin and feathers on a dinosaurs’’ skeleton, tropical fish swimming
around a coral, or placing an object back in time in its original environment.
Scope offers a new level of interactivity
aligned with readily available wireless technology that most of us now have. It
can be fun, mysterious, surprising and customised for different visitors
particularly school visits. It may also provide possible new revenue streams to
maintain and self-fund this new experience.
The ‘App” is free to download. Just visit www.bit.ly/vr-scope
and follow the instructions. Point your smart phone at the questions you will
see around the Scope exhibit to find the answers and experience the potential
of Scope.
What is Augmented Reality?
- Augmented
Reality (AR) is a combination of a real scene viewed by a user and a
virtual scene generated by a computer that augments the real scene with
additional objects and information.
- Mobile Augmented Reality is a novel smartphone technology that can display
real time digital information on top of the real world. It augments the
real world as seen through your mobile phone, based on your location.
