Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

In the Art Museum of South Texas, visitors are given an interactive and immersive experience through video, 3D images and audio from their mobile phone thanks to a new augmented reality application. This application can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices and the interesting part is that once it is downloaded, it does not use wifi or data when it is in use. If visitors hold up their mobile device loaded with this specific application, it will recognize the piece of art (that their mobile devices point to) in “Digital Darkroom” (a 10-piece exhibition) and will launch interactive...

A new application at Carnegie Museum of Art lets visitors climb the steps of historic buildings, peek through their columns and even snap a picture of their virtual adventure, all with the help of augmented reality.   More specifically, in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Architecture in Oakland, people can grab a tablet device in the gallery and select one of the featured pieces, in order to get instructions about the location of the chosen piece in the museum. When they find it, by pointing the tablet at the piece and following the prompts of the application, the...

A collaboration of the British museum and Oculus has led to the development of a new interactive tour that can be experienced directly within Facebook’s News Feed, using VR headsets and any web or mobile device. The user is presented with two options: tour 3,000 years of ancient sculpture or walk through galleries of Egyptian mummies and all that with the help of virtual reality. This could be useful in Thematic Area 4 of the ViMM project, because it is a great innovation in virtual museums. With the help of virtual reality, a user can take a virtual tour...