Museum of London debuts Augmented Reality Browser for Historical Viewing
The Museum of London has launched a new Augmented Reality (AR) application for the iPhone platform that, when launched, allows the user to view historic images superimposed over the visible world (via iPhone camera and screen). The following illustrations were posted via Gizmodo as possible views one might see:
This is an exciting illustration of the power of “collective memory” a concept we use to describe the knowledge management-like capabilities presented by spatialized AR data. Depending on the amount of stored detail one could rewind a specific view through multitudes of perspectives of a single area to see information from yesterday or a few centuries ago. This concept is a key component in the architecture of our iARM ecology.
Because our system is vision based, we have an extensive amount historical footage for areas of interest and the daily use of our system continuously adds to our model making for an amazingly powerful captured dimensional recording of our world.
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on May 26, 2010
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1 Comment on Museum of London debuts Augmented Reality Browser for Historical Viewing
By Andrew Soep on May 26, 2010 at 1:25 pm
When I first saw this on the Twitter feed, I assumed it entailed a trip to the museum, where you could hold up your phone and engage in a more interactive experience with a particular exhibit. The actual application is a pleasant surprise, in that it gets you out of the museum, and into the real world.
It’s one thing to be standing in a museum and looking at an exhibit, it’s another thing to actually be there and juxtapose the scene with the world we live in right now. A truly brilliant implementation.
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