Museum Exhibit Uses Swiveling Monitor for Augmented Reality
Museum Exhibit Uses Swiveling Monitor for Augmented Reality
Posted 04/14/2009 at 2:42pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Those folks over in Amsterdam are gonna write you a letter, gonna write you a book (anyone catch the song reference?), but before that they’re going to go ahead and augment your reality. And this time, they’re going to do it with a swiveling monitor instead of some hardcore brownies.
The staff over at the Allard Pierson Museum recently decided to recruit Fraunhofer IGD, a company that specializes in virtual and augmented reality to create their MovableScreen. The MovableScreen is a swiveling monitor (currently, they’re employing the services of an Apple iMac) that’s primary use is to pan through annotated pieces of art and reconstructed landscapes.
Currently the screen is being used to display a virtual reconstruction of Satricum and an annotated version of an 1855 photograph of Forum Romanum.
For more information you can check out the museum’s website here, and you can find a video of the MovableScreen in action here.
Image Credit: Allard Pierson Museum
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michaelnomad
April 15, 2009 at 6:27am
This really seems kind of silly. I would think that a touch screen or some simple arrow buttons would be just as easy, and more functional since you pan up and down as well as left and right.
Then again, it's not my money. So whatever.
knexkid
April 14, 2009 at 5:48pm
Song: Amsterdam by Guster!!!!! Thank you....
Gonna write you a letter, gonna write you a book, i wanna see your reaction.....why don't you get lost in Amsterdam!!!!
If you've never heard of Guster, check em out! Good stuff!
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