Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

Museums and heritage sites offer riveting and enlightening experiences for individuals looking to journey to the unknown past. While these sites and institutions aim to transport visitors to another space and time, exhibitions can only go so far to convey what the past was really like. Senses and stimulation are lost in nonreciprocal streams such as photographs, glass-cased exhibits, or signage. However, thanks to advancements in technology, augmented reality (AR) can be used to enhance historical experiences in an interactive and compelling way.   The Louvre in your Living Room Museums hold some of the most important relics of...

As vital institutions of society that both educate, and record and preserve history, museums help to shape our community and cultural identity. So, what is it that makes us want to explore one? To start with these architectural landmarks often entice us in with their aesthetic curb appeal. Then once inside these visually striking buildings, they’re brimming with treasured artefacts, fascinating stories and facts of bygone eras to discover. But in today’s world with its myriad of digital distractions, is there enough to tempt us in, hold our attention and encourage repeat visits? It seems not.   Key drivers...

The Florida Museum of Natural History, home to a magnificent Columbian Mammoth skeleton, has launched a custom-developed AR experience created by INDE to bring the giant extinct creature to life again. INDE’s unique form of “digital resurrection” using Augmented Reality technology has long been used in the conservation of animals through schools, museums, zoos and more. “Augmented reality is not a technology, it’s a teleportation machine. It’s bringing back the extinct and then learning about out why they’re gone. It’s touching wild animals and learning about the fragile environment and our impact on it.” said Alex Poulson, CEO.  ...

INDE’s large-screen “Back to the Jurassic” AR experience – launched at the Mayborn Museum’s Jeanes Discovery Center in Waco, TX – will be immersing visitors in the world of dinosaurs.   BroadcstAR is a next-generation edutainment platform deployed in more than 200 locations worldwide. The system allows visitors to the Mayborn Museum Complex to step back in time to play with a life-sized T-Rex, a giant diplodocus and other fascinating creatures. The experience features the most realistic, beautifully-detailed 3D dinosaurs ever created in Augmented Reality.   Charles Walter, Director of Mayborn Museum enthused: “Our INDE Augmented Reality experience has...

Plenty of young people go to museums. But too many of them come involuntarily as part of school trips, and their body language often shows it. They’d much rather be at home playing video games. But what if there’s a way to do both? The Getty Center, an art museum on a West Los Angeles hilltop, is opening a new exhibit this weekend that combines virtual reality with ancient Chinese cave paintings to create an experience that allows users to look around and learn — and it’s a heck of a lot more fun than staring at a painting...