So you read about MOB’s implementation of the Powerhouse historical images in Layar for the Android phones . . . well, Layar is now available for the iPhone!
You’ll need a 3GS as it uses the compass for orientation but the Layar application is free from the App Store.
Once you’ve installed Layar on your iPhone [...]
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On Saturday night at our (very rainy) Common Ground meetup in Sydney, Rob Manson and Alex Young from BuildAR demonstrated the first version of their augmented reality mobile toolkit using images from the Powerhouse’s geocoded photographs in the Commons on Flickr.
This work riffs around the early mashup from Paul Hagon where he combined the historic [...]
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I was reading Michael Chabon’s piece on childhood last week and one section popped out of the screen –
It captured perfectly the mental maps of their worlds that children endlessly revise and refine. Childhood is a branch of cartography.
Walking my daughter to school we tiptoe “past the wizard’s house” at the top of my [...]
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As regular readers know, we’ve been trialling QR codes and a little while back rolled them on a small selection of object labels in a Japanese fashion display.
I’ve been keep an eye on their usage and some of the continuing problems around lighting, shadows, and low-resolution mobile phone cameras like the current iPhone 3G. So [...]
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I think QR codes have a lot of potential – potential that hitherto has not been realised. The underwhelming uptake of the codes outside of Japan has a lot to do with the poor quality marketing campaigns so far run with them. If I am going to have to install or worse still, find on [...]
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Today we went live with a mobile version of the Powerhouse Museum site. Open up http://www.powerhousemuseum.com on your phone browser and you’ll see a stripped back version of the site with the bare necessities and a slimmed down architecture.
It is a still a work in progress – we’ve been greatly impressed with how SFMOMA incorporated [...]
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ABC Innovation has launched their Sydney Sidetracks project.
This is a lovely experiment in developing a mobile heritage application which takes some of the archives of ABC TV and Radio and combines them with static imagery and research from the cultural heritage partners – Powerhouse Museum, State Library of NSW, National Film & Sound Archives, [...]
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I’ve had several emails, tweets and general interest in more information about our QR code experiment so here’s some more information.
Firstly, it has to be said that the experiment was sub-optimal. We made mistakes – but I think that making mistakes in order to learn from them is something Australians (and museums) need to get [...]
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A little while ago I blogged about an experiment we were doing with QR codes.
In summary, we placed a QR code in the back of the Sydney Design 08 festival programme which gave access to a discount voucher for the festival and ensured free entry to the Museum during the event.
The big question is, [...]
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Picnic is a large ‘creativity’ conference held annually in Amsterdam. I’ve been here as a guest of n8 talking about the notion of ‘open museums’.
Here is the final set of notes (with only a minor cleanup for the sake of timeliness).
Closing off my time at Picnic were visits to a couple of parallel sessions. One [...]
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