Hi,
I thought I'd quickly share some experience from many years ago.
I worked at the first consumer targeted VR company - went on to become a
listed company.
One of the things that never seems to get mentioned "these days" is the
hygiene issue.
If you are allowing multiple users to use the same headgear then it's vital
to have someone available to thoroughly clean the kit after it is used.
This might sound a little like overkill, but even if it is not a health and
safety requirement now - IT WILL BE at some point.
Also - I've seen lots of VR apps running recently and very few of them
actually do what they should.
Looking at a small monitor behind lenses can provide an interesting
experience, but certainly not to the level that it becomes important.
One of the key areas for VR to overcome is the fact that users will not
move their heads. Until VR programmers actually come up with a concept
that requires users to actually look up, down and behind them the
experience will be just a novelty.
Of course, when users actually start to move their heads you have the
problem of users bumping in to each other. I wonder when the first law suit
will be filed for a VR injury.
Not sure if this adds to the thread, but thought I'd post anyway.
Simon
On 1 February 2016 at 09:54, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Cool, thanks everyone. Keep them coming.
>
> Danny, to answer your question, yes, sort of! We have an increasing
> amount of 3D content in Europeana -
> http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search?f[TYPE][]=3D&q= - but access
> remains an issue. Even with our new ability to filter records only with
> directly available media (including by mimetypes) I'm not getting any of
> the obvious formats like .obj as options. This has kicked off a whole
> internal thread of investigation, so when I find out more I'll post back.
>
> In practise, the hackathon team used the main Europeana search to find
> potential models and then investigated what files were available - hardly
> efficient. But they did find some great things, both objects and wider
> elements like buildings and even just rocks that they could use to create
> their environment. One issue they faced was that many 3D objects were
> available in far too high resolution for their needs, but I guess that's a
> nice problem to have. They just didn't have time in the context of a 48
> hour hackathon to deal with it. They needed IIIF for 3D objects! One thing
> that wasn't as much of a problem as with other content types - licensing.
> Thank you, content providers!
>
> For the quizes they used 2D content and presented it as panels in the
> landscape. The neat thing they had was a curation/creation tool so as a
> quiz creator you put a search term in, it queried the Europeana API for
> suitable content, and then it was just drag and drop what you picked into
> the environment. Neat.
>
> Cheers, James
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Mike Gogan
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> Sent: 01 February 2016 09:42
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> Subject: Re: VR in museums
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> Hi again
>
> There are some examples of 3D objects on our website, running in Unity3D
>
> http://virtualexperience.co.uk/?page=services&sub=artefacts
>
> Best..
>
> Mike
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> James Morley
> Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 8:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MCG] VR in museums
>
> Hi all
>
> One of the winning teams at the hackathon I was at in Estonia this weekend
> created a VR based quiz using objects sourced through Europeana, placing
> them in contextual VR environments - in the case of the demo, the ruins of
> a village in WW1.
>
> Two questions
>
> - can people give good examples of in-museum or museum focused VR
> experiences?
>
> - what level of interest is there within institutions to experiment with
> VR as a different form of visitor experience?
>
> All comments welcome as it will help them develop their concept. Any
> experts in the field we can consult with?
>
> Cheers, James
>
> PS the only example I have personally tried was in a photography
> exhibition at the National Archives in NL who did a virtual exhibition room
> to explore more of their collections. But in that case, personally I'd
> have preferred I nice touchscreen interface to a well presented version of
> their catalogue
>
> .
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> James Morley
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