Mike wrote:
> Layar is the closest to being a generic framework I think,
> but it isn't quite at the "drop in your images with
> coordinates and we'll overlay them in AR" stage, unless I've
> missed something?
We've got a test Layar layer up and running which does exactly that for our Your Kew Flickr group. So far though it seems to just expose how badly users geotag their images!
James
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> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> Subject: Museums and Augmented Reality
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> Interesting to see another museum doing some AR stuff:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jun/21/bristol-arthur
-cox-digital-archives
>
> Seems to me there is a pretty big opportunity here for a
> generic framework / app which lets museums put images like
> this into AR...
>
> I know there's Layar (Seb does some cool stuff using that:
> http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/layar/) and of course the
> Museum of London
> (http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/streetmuseum.htm). I also
> got a tweet from someone at the Netherlands Architecture
> Institute (see
> http://en.nai.nl/exhibitions/sara/_pid/left1/_rp_left1_element
Id/1_601695).
>
> Layar is the closest to being a generic framework I think,
> but it isn't quite at the "drop in your images with
> coordinates and we'll overlay them in AR" stage, unless I've
> missed something?
>
> Be nice to see whether geo stuff can combine more seamlessly
> with museum records into the future..
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Ellis
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