Exploring New Technology

Posted by James Cokeham in Apps, Augmented Reality, Blog Posts, Heritage, Interpretation on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm | No Comments

We had a really positive response to the publication of last week’s ‘Developing Social Media’ White Paper so thought it would be good to launch it’s ‘twin’ this week. ‘Exploring New Technology’ examines many of the exciting new technologies that are emerging in the heritage interpretation sector and attempts to briefly appraise their effectiveness as interpretation tools. This is a really interesting area, with lots of opportunities for the creative use of new media to produce interpretation schemes that really ‘push...

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An (augmented) reality check

Posted by James Cokeham in Apps, Augmented Reality, Blog Posts, Heritage, Interpretation on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pm | No Comments
An (augmented) reality check

Following on from our earlier post about ‘apps’, smartphones and their (quite astounding) potential as interpretive tools, I thought this would be a good time to blog about ‘augmented reality’ – what I hear you say?!! Well, it’s something we’ve been getting a little steamed up about here at The School for the past few months… It was actually a piece on ‘Click’, the BBC technology show, that directly prompted this post. In last week’s edition, they examined what ‘augmented reality’ is, how it is...

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