Imagemakers are recruiting

Posted by David Emery in Apps, Augmented Reality, Blog Posts, Exhibition Design, Heritage, Interactive, Interpretation, Uncategorized on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at 4:54 pm | No Comments

We’re looking for a Web Developer and an Assistant Interpretive Project Manager. Web Developer (immediate start): We’re developing ever more exciting and effective online experiences for our clients across the heritage and cultural tourism sectors and we’re looking for someone to help us extend and deliver our digital offer. If this sounds like you then send your CV, including links to sites you’ve developed, to: davidr@imagemakers.uk.com Marketing / PR Graduate: We are looking for a recent graduate to assist our New Projects team. This post is advertised...

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Lets get augmented

Posted by David Masters in Augmented Reality, Blog Posts on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 at 3:09 pm | No Comments

We’re starting to get to grips with the massive potential of augmented reality in our work. Our Chester Portico project is involving an appraisal of a couple of AR applications, which we have been discussing with specialist suppliers. The potential of AR is extremely interesting, although a barrier exists in the need to pay a substantial annual license to the software rights holder. However this is a relatively young field and the competition is growing. The key for us, as with other new media developments, is to use technology to deliver clear interpretive goals,...

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We’ve never had it so good

Posted by Charlie Curnow in Apps, Augmented Reality, Blog Posts, Design, Digital, Interpretation on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 12:12 pm | No Comments

Not a headline one expects to see in these challenging times with funding pots being shrunk or ‘diverted’ towards other causes other than the heritage sector. But is it all doom and gloom for interpretation? Not necessarily: for the creative interpreter there’s a fantastic array of media available today, and much of it at a comparatively low cost. There are the headline acts, such as apps for smart phones (for example http://www.vimeo.com/8866765) and augmented reality, which present exciting and genuinely innovative (there’s an overused word if...

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Its smiling day today

Posted by David Masters in Augmented Reality, Blog Posts, Heritage, Interpretation on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at 12:30 pm | No Comments

Hi David here, and I’m very excited about the news we can now share of our sucess in tendering for the Portico Project in Chester. Portico is an EU funded programme linking the cities of Chester, Utrecht, Ghent and Cologne to demonstrate the use of heritage for economic development. Our remit is to plan and implement a programme of interpretation for the City Walls and Towers, with an emphasis on the use of new media. The fun part is we hope to test and trial the use of augmented reality / CGI apps to take visitors back in time to Chester’s vibrant past...

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Daddy, are we lost?

Posted by Phil Songhurst in Augmented Reality, Blog Posts on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 10:16 am | No Comments

What are you like at reading maps? I’ve found that some people do it quite naturally, for others they may as well be trying to follow a serendipitous child’s first crayon drawing. As a teenager I tried my hand at orienteering – I was hopeless.  Always taking short cuts – usually in the wrong direction.  Our “coach” taught us to orientate our maps to be pointing in the direction that we were to travel and then take the necessary compass readings etc.  This was a good tip. In the olden days I used to suggest my wife, as navigator on car...

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