Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

By Adam Williams Following an architecture competition, Turkey’s Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) has been selected to create the new Robot Science Museum (RSM) in Seoul, South Korea. Interestingly, the firm says that the building will be part-constructed using 3D-printing machines, drones, and other robots. The RSM was conceived by the Seoul Metropolitan Government to increase public interest in, and promote the knowledge of, robotics. It’s part of a larger development push in the area that will also host a Photographic Art Museum. As well as robotics, the museum will include science exhibits with Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented...

By Michel’le Donnelly Last night saw Team Mobi take to the stage and pitch at the NSW Business Chamber Networking Night held at the Westin in Sydney. The event is famous for its high energy ’60 Second Spotlight’ which proves both an efficient way to get business chamber members to promote their services and helps steer clear of the typical networking function. Mobiddiction Director, Mike Vasavada, was one of ten members to be put on the spot and in a room filled with business ranging from events coordination to property, it was clear Mobiddiction had the most unique proposition....

By Allison Meier Tamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change. Visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art can now glimpse a dire future when New York is underwater. Up on the sixth floor terrace, an outdoor video screen and two indoor tablets show coral growing on the building. Although they are vibrantly colorful, with a liveliness accented by an ocean noise soundtrack, closer inspection reveals they are composed of plastic trash like flip-flops, straws, and rubber ducks. During the course of the day, they are slowly desaturated until...

  BY CHARLOTTE COATES Most museums regularly welcome field trips through their doors, but unfortunately not every school is able to visit a museum in person. Could virtual reality offer a way to remove barriers, and allow children in classes at the other side of the country or even the world to virtually walk through the doors? One San Francisco based entrepreneur is running innovative virtual reality field trips that aim to break down barriers and bring the museum experience to the classroom. Kai Frazier founded Curated x Kai in 2017. The website provides access to a series of...

Virtual reality is currently experiencing a spectacular renaissance. The concept itself is nothing new; researchers and entrepreneurs have been exploring the subject for several decades now, with varying degrees of success. The website “The Verge” even put out a fascinating article recently on the chaotic saga of virtual reality entitled: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality. Since 2013, however, significant advances have been made. Innovators such as Oculus, and more recently Google, with “Cardboard”, are about to make virtual reality a household name—and this time for good, or so it seems. There’s a simple explanation for...