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Game is a loaded word. It conjures up associations with sport, with competition, with fun - all things which are argued as have nothing to do with art or creativity.

But these are superficial aspects of games. Digging deeper exposes the bones and gristle of conflict: rules, goals, mediated interactions, the ways groups or individuals respond to each other, and structures for risk and overcoming adversity. These are the pieces for the creation of unique art and experience.

Mobile Augmented Reality Quest aims at developing an electronic tour guide for museums based on a self-contained, inexpensive PDA, that delivers a fully interactive 3D Augmented Reality (AR) to a group of visitors. The new PDA-based approach introduces very low costs per device and high scalability which allows for the first time the realization of applications for many concurrent users as required for an appealing museum installation. Visitors use a mobile, hand-held, personal guide showing a 3D Augmented Reality image of the surrounding that combines real and virtual elements. Real exhibits in the museum are augmented by their virtual counterpart. The guide knows the position of its user and provides context relevant information. The guide thus becomes a kind of "magic lens" capable of visualising the otherwise hidden virtual objects. By looking at the guide's display, visitors see visualizations and animations superimposed onto real exhibits. The guide displays multimedia content, but also acts as an intelligent assistant - the modern day replacement for a guide book.

Slicker than Sigourney Weaver with a Smart Gun, the apptoyz appBlaster v.2 is a Droid (and Apple) docking weapon of mass distraction that utilises your Android’s accelerometer to upgrade your gaming experience to incredible new heights, whilst dual conductive pads transfer your two-triggered skills to the screen, making for the most immersive action ever

Metaio's Augmented City with 3D markerless tracking

This is an exciting video, check out the quality of the 'computer vision' tracking.. nice

#Augmented City #Markerless #portable device #3d #junaio

Fortunately, museums have a long track record with these attributes [of learning games: challenge, curiosity, control and fantasy]. Since the days of the cabinet of curiosity, these qualities have loomed large in the museum visitor's experience. Schaller recalls the elaborate games he played as a child in the exhibits of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. These museum visits meant entering the "magic circle"—a place where "a new reality is created, defined by the rules of the game and inhabited by its players."1 In the same way, games are magic circles where players assume new identities, follow a specific set of rules and assign new meanings to familiar actions. Each activity depends on a suspension of disbelief and an element of fantasy, making the magic circle a valuable arena for exploring a subject in an exciting and meaningful way. The magic circle does not require expensive and immersive game worlds, of course. It exists in simple playground games. But digital technology allows museums to populate their games with rich content from their collections and programs, enticing the player into the magic circle and perhaps immersing him/her in the subject matter. Malone and Lepper call this immersion "intrinsic fantasy," in which "the skill being learned and the fantasy depend on each other." For example, the role-play game Oregon Trail uses intrinsic fantasy in that the player's ability to navigate the trail depends on the individual's knowledge of the game's historical context. The game of Hangman, on the other hand, uses extrinsic fantasy, as the gallows context is not connected to the player's ability to guess words correctly. Malone and Lepper believe that intrinsic fantasy is more motivating and pedagogically effective than extrinsic fantasy.

by Susan Edwards, J. Paul Getty Museum and David T. Schaller, eduweb

In The Digital Museum: A Think Guide, edited by Herminia Din and Phyllis Hecht (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums 2007)

David T. Schaller, Eduweb, USA

Abstract

In the late 20th century, museums moved from traditional methods of knowledge transmission to constructivist interpretive methods such as narrative, a transition that many found challenging. Today, museum educators wishing to adopt game-based learning methods face a similar challenge: to move from now-familiar narrative methods to a systems-based approach in which rulesets define player choices and subsequent consequences. These rules represent some aspect of the subject matter, while also revealing the designer’s perspective on it. Rules create the space for the players to author their own experience, made more meaningful because it was shaped by their own choices, actions, and struggles within the system.

Keywords: games, learning, museums, constructivism, narrative, game-based learning

Read more: From Knowledge to Narrative – to Systems? Games, Rules and Meaning-making | museumsandtheweb.com

This walking tour was awesome. It is easy, interactive, fun, and fact-filled. You will never look at Boston the same way. $5 is ridiculously low for this app. It is very well done and I hope they produce others for Boston. Best to do the tour during the weekday when stores and historical society are open.

Let me confess up front that I have a weak spot for apps that focus on local historic areas. These are like someone inviting you into their home. This is where they live and work. There’s an element of pride based upon a true appreciation for a place that shines through the best of these apps. Even if it’s unlikely you’ll be able to make the physical journey to everyone one of these, the best historic places apps create a soft spot in your heart that you don’t forget by taking you on a mental journey. Let’s begin with a warm invitation to the Strawbery Banke Museum.

Ghostwriter is a commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter as part of the relaunch of the renovated building in November 2011.

The work springs from the saying that “A million objects give rise to a million thoughts” which the museum uses as a concept for their collection. Each object in the collection carries an aura and resonates with the extraordinary histories of those who made it and used it. Ghostwriter is an interactive phone call that subtly hovers between the present and the past, between the here and the elsewhere.

Visitors ring in and hear a woman whose voice gently draws you into the museum. She describes her surroundings and they seem to match yours. She describes an object in front of her and talks about its role in her life. But this line between her surroundings and yours is unstable. At times she says things that suggest she is somewhere else looking at a different object. And you can interact with her, jumping in time and space or even making a recording of your own about an object that resonates in your life.

Ghostwriter has echoes of the museum guide, of the radio heard late at night and of the writing of Paul Auster. It has a spare, metaphysical style that is part detective novel and part internal monologue. The work can be experienced from anywhere in the world but is designed to be most effective when started in the museum. Its ghostly tenor and rich atmosphere act as a mysterious lure towards the reinvented RAMM.

Using technology to provide access to the collections held by cultural institutions is nothing new. Using augmented reality, a technology often equated with science fiction movies, to provide that access, however, is much newer. But how does augmented reality actually work? What are the benefits and challenges of developing an AR project? Can this technology be used effectively in cultural institutions?

To address these questions, the City of Philadelphia Department of Records (DOR) applied for and received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2010 to develop the use of augmented reality to display historic photograph collections (see Figure 1). Using images from PhillyHistory.org, a Philadelphia City Archives website that provides access to more than 95,000 photos and maps held by several different institutions (see Figure 2), DOR wanted to create a prototype smartphone application (also known as an app) that would enable users to point their iPhone or Android device at a specific location and see historic photos of that location overlaid on the view visible through their phones’ camera – a technique known as augmented reality (commonly referred to as AR). With this grant, DOR hoped to create a new way for people to view these thousands of images and introduce the photos to new audiences, as well as research the potential uses of augmented reality in cultural institutions.

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Dimensions isn’t played on the touchscreen of your device, it is played in your real life. The app makes use of every possible sensor on the iPhone and intertwines game play deeply into your daily life. In Dimensions, you really are inside the game – its not just a marketing phrase!

The Voices of Oakland is an outdoor location-based audio experience for historic Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, GA. Beautiful mausoleums and statues permeate the intimate urban cemetery, rich in Southern history. We explored the idea of aural augmentation in the space, using GPS technology to trigger prerecorded audio stories, told in first person from the perspective of the deceased. Visitors are able to wander freely between gravesites and listen to the voices of professional actors chronicle a faithful history of Atlanta.

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