Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

An exhibition called “The seeing glass” is available at the Delaware Art Museum up to the 14th of January. With the help of virtual reality, a Victorian painting called “La Bella Mano” is transformed into a three-dimensional waking dream with lavish décor and decaying displays of flowers, fruit, insects, and skulls. The visitors of the museum put on an Oculus Rift headset, in order to dive into this Virtual world. As the visitors move in the virtual world, the objects start becoming blurred and the time speeds up. This virtual experience allows viewers the opportunity to become absorbed in a virtual reality of historical painting and witness the artificial passage of time. This could be useful in Thematic Area 4 of the ViMM project, because it is a nice and innovative application of Virtual Reality to an art museum. With the help of Virtual Reality, the visitors of the museum have the opportunity to explore a virtual room, which is connected to the specific painting. There is no narrative experience. Instead, the viewer is absorbed in the virtual world with the possibility of finding meaning in the symbolism of its objects. That means, that for the storytelling field, the story in this specific experience is told through the objects of the virtual room. Also, the visitors move their body in order to move inside the room, giving them the...

Through Jan. 14 at Science Museum Oklahoma, guests with a smartphone or tablet in hand can view different exhibits through augmented reality. This experience is the work of ReLiveIt, an Oklahoma City-based startup that has developed an application designed to enhance the visitor experience at museums, historical sights and tourist attractions. Dubbed the “Museum of Augmented Reality,” ReLiveIt’s pop-up museum is located on SMO’s second floor and is included with general admission. By using the ReLiveIt application on their smartphone or tablet, guests can point their device at the text panel next to each of the exhibit’s artifacts. The action will trigger a unique augmented reality experience for each item that includes CGI objects and animals, time-lapse videos, and green screen videos with narrators sharing the unique story behind each object. This could be useful in Thematic Area 4 of the ViMM project, because this is another successful adaption of augmented reality in a museum. With the help of augmented reality, guests can view many different museum exhibits through their smartphone or tablet. It is an amazing experience for the guests, which makes them learn new things in a fun and interesting way that many of them may have never experienced before. This augmented reality experience combines the storytelling (narrators sharing the story of different objects presented with the help of augmented reality), presence (the ability for the guests...