Comments on: Entrepreneurial Brainstorming Session: Augmented Museum Experience iPhone App http://www.techiteasy.org/2009/11/27/entrepreneurial-brainstorming-session-augmented-museum-experience-iphone-app/ A Technology and Business Weblog provided to You by a Global Group of Friends. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:29:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kari http://www.techiteasy.org/2009/11/27/entrepreneurial-brainstorming-session-augmented-museum-experience-iphone-app/#comment-5216 kari Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:49:31 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2418#comment-5216 I noticed that there was a simple cataloging app by Louvre for iPhone. Didn't test it out, but seems like it has some info about some of the things there. Pretty neat idea. Because I love the idea of iPhone etc. as an unified interface to the world, it would really make things simple if you could at a museum or a historic site, just plug your headphones into your smartphone instead of carrying around the audio tour things that expect you to walk at a given pace and route. Well, I do know that there are research projects into this kind of stuff. You might have noticed in the news that Nokia has developed some image recognition app for movie posters. Also, I've heard that Nokia has a lot of interest in "indoor GPS" kind of things. So yes, I think this is something the mobile companies are interested, but I guess the problem is that they don't have a business case there. Museums on the other hand, might not have the know how. From a technical point of view, some kind of smart tags would probably suit this idea best, if there was any client device adoption in that field. Things like RFID tags have the benefit of having low to no maintenance and giving you location information and close-range data transmission. Also, updating the info is quite easy as once you move the sign, the info moves... The other option is to use wlan or something, but then it gets quite messy. I think the no cameras allowed rule has a lot to do with flash and the beeps that most people do not know how to disable. Also, I guess it depends on the country's copyright laws. I don't think QR codes etc. are really appropriate in the museum context. First of all, it's quite a pain to get that close to the little signs. I noticed that there was a simple cataloging app by Louvre for iPhone. Didn't test it out, but seems like it has some info about some of the things there. Pretty neat idea. Because I love the idea of iPhone etc. as an unified interface to the world, it would really make things simple if you could at a museum or a historic site, just plug your headphones into your smartphone instead of carrying around the audio tour things that expect you to walk at a given pace and route.

Well, I do know that there are research projects into this kind of stuff. You might have noticed in the news that Nokia has developed some image recognition app for movie posters. Also, I've heard that Nokia has a lot of interest in "indoor GPS" kind of things. So yes, I think this is something the mobile companies are interested, but I guess the problem is that they don't have a business case there. Museums on the other hand, might not have the know how.

From a technical point of view, some kind of smart tags would probably suit this idea best, if there was any client device adoption in that field. Things like RFID tags have the benefit of having low to no maintenance and giving you location information and close-range data transmission. Also, updating the info is quite easy as once you move the sign, the info moves… The other option is to use wlan or something, but then it gets quite messy.

I think the no cameras allowed rule has a lot to do with flash and the beeps that most people do not know how to disable. Also, I guess it depends on the country's copyright laws.

I don't think QR codes etc. are really appropriate in the museum context. First of all, it's quite a pain to get that close to the little signs.

]]> By: @vincentvw http://www.techiteasy.org/2009/11/27/entrepreneurial-brainstorming-session-augmented-museum-experience-iphone-app/#comment-5214 @vincentvw Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:23:10 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2418#comment-5214 It does, because I don't know anything about image recognition. But from a business +software perspective, having to make agreements with museums really inhibits the ability to scale a business. It does, because I don't know anything about image recognition.

But from a business +software perspective, having to make agreements with museums really inhibits the ability to scale a business.

]]> By: Hugh Bothwell http://www.techiteasy.org/2009/11/27/entrepreneurial-brainstorming-session-augmented-museum-experience-iphone-app/#comment-5213 Hugh Bothwell Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:37:00 +0000 http://www.techiteasy.org/?p=2418#comment-5213 Maybe you could get the museum to post a QR code with each piece (ie on the nametag?). This could then redirect you to a web page (possibly internally hosted / available over local WiFi) with embedded audio and other info; could also have a 'spatial index' to let you jump to the next piece up/left/etc. Hope this helps! Maybe you could get the museum to post a QR code with each piece (ie on the nametag?).

This could then redirect you to a web page (possibly internally hosted / available over local WiFi)
with embedded audio and other info;

could also have a 'spatial index' to let you jump to the next piece up/left/etc.

Hope this helps!

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