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NMC Horizon Report > 2011 Museum Edition
This is the latest from the New Media Consortium on technologies and their potential impact in museums. The final 2011 report can be found here. Interestingly, a draft PDF which included other topic areas has been widely circulated, the draft … Continue reading
New Free Kinect Software and Gigapixel Viewer Exhibit
We’ve just released a new version of the software package that is much easier to install and use. Check out TUIO Kinect Complete, it contains a single installer with all the necessary software to get started. It even includes an … Continue reading
MoPA's My Gallery Exhibit (Video)
The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) has posted a video of their My Gallery exhibit. It shows the opening of the exhibit in Osaka, Japan. The software was developed with Open Exhibits. The project involved MoPA, University of California San … Continue reading
Open Exhibits on the Road: The British Museum
Last week we were in London showing off Open Exhibits software in the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at the British Museum. Along with about 30 people from the British Museum, we had visitors from: Museum of London, Science Museum, the … Continue reading
Open Exhibits Members on a Global Map
To better visualize the location of our community members, we created a simple Google Map Mashup that shows where Open Exhibits members come from. The map demonstrates a great deal of activity in the United States and in Europe, but … Continue reading
Objects, Containers, Gestures, and Manipulations
An interesting paper exploring new metaphors for user interaction in multitouch and multiuser environments. Objects, Containers, Gestures, and Manipulations: Universal Foundational Metaphors of Natural User Interfaces By Ron George, Joshua Blake Here’s the abstract: In this paper, we propose Objects, Containers, … Continue reading
Heist! Museum Visitors Take Digital Objects
Heist is an experimental project that uses Open Exhibits and GestureWorks software and is powered by Sensus server technology to enable effortless networking. Digital museum objects can be easily shared with visitor’s smart phones or tablets. All this happens without … Continue reading
Complete Your Profile and Win a Free Kinect
We are giving away a free Microsoft Kinect. Just let us and the rest of the community know a little bit more about you and we will enter you in a drawing for a free Kinect. To be eligible…If you … Continue reading
Open Exhibits Meetup at the British Museum!
Join us! Open Exhibits senior developer, Paul Lacey and I will be at the British Museum in London on October 27th. There will be an open house from 11AM to 4:00PM in the Samsung Digital Learning Centre. We will have … Continue reading
Building a Better Collection Viewer: Part 2
Last month I wrote a post about our plans for developing a new and more robust Collection Viewer. Since then we’ve met and discussed the design of this new software with our museum partners from the New Mexico Museum of … Continue reading
