This was a rather interesting section of the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. From our press materials; “Visitors build a spaceport, moisture farm community and walled Jawa town. Placing cards on a table – the physical landscape – a computer superimposes a building on a site in virtual reality and real time.”
It was kind of a Sony EyeToy meets Microsoft Surface meets Sim City meets Settlers of Catan. The kids were going nuts for this thing. They looked like me at a Milli Vanilli concert back in the day. It was intergalactical, my main man.
Hi Doug –
My name is Nick Hedley – I designed the Star Wars WSMI Augmented Reality exhibit.
The project was rewarding for a number of reasons ->
- developing new ways to engage museum-goers
- developing a multi-level interaction design
- build and manage a real-time 3D virtual community’s resources
- no 2 user experiences are the same
- exploring new appraoches to universal design interfaces
- seeing the impact it had on museum-goers of all ages!
Very cool to see kids still enjoying the exhibit.
Best regards, Nick H.