Augmented Reality

Announcements

• Meeting the week at the Sarnoff Museum
• Down the Rabbit Hole
• Genius – Annotate the World
• TaskPipes

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to review some of your design notebooks.

Sarnoff Collection

Let’s tour the collection and review some exhibits from previous classes.

Augmented Reality

• Augmented Reality Could Save Your Life
• Word Lens (now part of Google Translate)
• Zombies Everywhere!

What is Augmented Reality?

Reality ———-> AR ———-> Virtual Reality

Triggers

• Feature Recognition – markers, QR codes, images, colors, etc.
• Positioning Data – location, orientation
• What kinds of devices have cameras, GPS & accelerometers?

Augmented Reality & the Web

WC3 Augmented Reality Group

Why use it in Museums?

• In exhibition space – provide additional levels of interpretation
• Outside the exhibition space – extend exhibition reach and provide additional levels of interpretation for digital/print exhibit media

Some AR Toolkit Options

• Aurasma
• Layar
• Vuforia
• *Appcelerator Plugin
• CraftAR Phonegap Plugin
• Metaio

*Appcelerator fans might be interested in this

This is great stuff

Exercise

• Break up into teams of 3 or 4
• Head over to the Aurasma website and signup
• Using Aurasma Studio, create a a new Aura
• The follow the instructions to create a demo AR app
• Use photos or images from the Sarnoff Collection to create your demos

Assignment

Natural User Interfaces

• Read the 2012 NMC Horizon Report pp. 31-35
• Create a new page in your Design Notebook with the heading “Natural User Interfaces”
• Take a look at some of the examples of natural user interfaces currently used in museums on pp. 33 & 34 of the Horizon Report and write a paragraph about your favorite example.
• Can you find any other examples of the “Natural User Interfaces” being used “in the wild”?  Jot down a brief description & a link to what you find in your Design Notebook.

NJSM Cultural Heritage Collection

• Create a new page in your Design Notebook and title it “Project Story ideas”
• Read “On Objects and Storytelling”
• Review your notes from our two visits to the NJSM, the Pretty Big Things and Civil War Flags collection pages, the exhibition panels listed on the syllabus
• Write out three story ideas you think would be compelling for patrons of the NJSM – just a sentence describing the story – you can share more details in class next week

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed them, post a comment on this page (Augmented Reality), including a link to your Design Notebook.