Author: Christiana Polycarpou

How Can Museums Use Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality has been going through yet another cyclical revival driven largely by improvements in hardware resulting in a new surge of public interest. But how can museums use virtual reality? Where are the truly exciting opportunities for museums? And how do we get beyond just having to manage visitor expectations and the resultant problems with ‘more tech’?

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Google adds shared AR experiences to Android

It’s been three months since Google opened up ARCore, its augmented-reality platform, to the public. And today, at I/O, the company is ready to announce even more ARCore features that’ll make augmented-reality apps that much more collaborative and immersive. The first update is that you’ll finally be able to have shared AR experiences. Thanks to a new Cloud Anchor capability, you’ll be able to tag certain objects in your surroundings and then share that tag with your friends. This means, for example, that you can redecorate your home together by moving around virtual furniture or play a game of virtual Tic-Tac-Toe in...

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