Dear all,
As requested by Andrew Lewis, here's a round up of your Google Cardboard comments and projects:
- Jon Pratty says museums are behind the wider arts sector, but he will be putting the results of an R&D project, Sittingbourne 360, on www.ideastest.org.uk shortly. This created a 3D model of part of Sittingbourne and the Roman road that runs through it, linking it with ordnance survey, census and other data.
- Museums have been rather more ambitious with Minecraft (BM, Tate and Museum of London's Great Fire spring to mind). Robin Patel points out you can make yourself even more dizzy by playing Minecraft in VR, using this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTWqi0TtM6g
- Corey Timpson at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has just run an exhibition called 'Empowering Women' which includes a virtual walk through Guatemala (and not Ghana as I misremembered before - apologies!). Links: https://humanrights.ca/explore/exhibit/empowering-women/virtual-reality-experience, https://humanrights.ca/exhibit/empowering-women. There were two Oculus stations in the gallery. Evaluation still to come, but anecdotally very successful.
- A volunteer at Royal Pavilion and Museums in Brighton has created a 3D walk through model of Brighton Pavilion at different stages of its history. Ask Kevin Bacon, digital manager for more. Link: http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/2017/01/09/new-year-new-dimension-the-royal-pavilion-estate-in-vr/)
- The Royal Institution nerdily asks if it would have been possible to walk to the moon in David Bowie's lifetime, and provides a VR friendly film to answer that question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&list=PLbnrZHfNEDZwAxUjqu0dtJO39RFzBotoX&v=YCmcq1T2n1Q&app=desktop
- Polysyllabic Dinosaurs! Brought back to life! Swimming round the Natural History Museum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1AvqYXwHQ (details: Matthew Prosser)
Schools resources
- Michael White at Parks Canada says it is not developing its own resources but is using Google Expeditions: https://www.google.co.uk/edu/expeditions/#about ('VR which uses Cardboard as its platform') and offers virtual school trips to national parks and historic sites. Michael says
"Although it's by no means the higher end of what's happening in VR, the
nice thing we're finding about Expeditions is there's very little technical
effort/expertise needed in developing one, you just need some of your own
decent resolution panoramic photos, or you can use pre-existing content on
Google Street View, and associated written speaking points similar to an
interpretive program."
Further knowledgeable people:
Kate
