Friday, April 05, 2019: 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Grand Ballroom
Professional Forum: New Life, Old Galleries: A conversation about audience engagement and storytelling using augmented reality, image recognition, and location awareness
- Silvina Fernandez-Duque, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA, Robin White Owen, MediaCombo, Inc., USA, Hilary-Morgan Watt, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Augmented Reality bridges digital and physical worlds, accompanying users as they move through space, augmenting their activities with information. For museums it’s a new and beautiful way to offer visitors more engaging exhibition experiences by adding 3-dimensional aural and visual information to objects on display.
In this conversation, panelists and attendees will discuss how museum experiences using augmented reality, image recognition and location awareness can bring new life and engagement to spaces that cannot be altered. The panelists will share insights gained from projects at the Holocaust Museum, Morgan Library, and Hirshhorn Museum, to spark conversation around various approaches to using these different technologies.