[MCN-L] New Book from MuseumsEtc - CODE | WORDS: Technology and Theory in the Museum

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[MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Haley Goldman, Michael]

With the NYTimes about to launch its VR documentary "Displaced," I'm trying
to find good past or present examples of 360-projection domes at museums (I
already have plenty of examples of VR headsets, thank you).

Most of what I've seen so far has been science based - which is great but
less applicable - so I'm looking for a variety of examples and a better
sense of the options in technology being used.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Michael Haley Goldman
USHMM - Future Projects
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Re: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Bruce Wyman]

Michael — 

At the Canadian Museum for Human Rights up in Winnipeg, we put together a 360° 
theater telling a first nations story that’s done in both english and french. 
We partnered with Electrosnic on the AV installation for the museum (and that 
piece in particular) with RAA doing the overall exhibit design. Steve Haas 
Acoustics did the final sound tuning and the fabrication done by Kubik.

If memory serves, we used 7 Barco CNWU-61B projectors and the overall 
production is run through Dataton’s Watchout software on a pair of Showsage 
Model 6444 servers. 

You can see the rig used to film the outdoor scenography at 


And an image of the theater itself is at 


And, an external view of the theater is in CMHR’s flickr collection at 


We’ll run into each other in Minneapolis — feel free to ask me more about it 
this week.

-bw.


> On Nov 3, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Haley Goldman, Michael  
> wrote:
> 
> With the NYTimes about to launch its VR documentary "Displaced," I'm trying
> to find good past or present examples of 360-projection domes at museums (I
> already have plenty of examples of VR headsets, thank you).
> 
> Most of what I've seen so far has been science based - which is great but
> less applicable - so I'm looking for a variety of examples and a better
> sense of the options in technology being used.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Michael Haley Goldman
> USHMM - Future Projects
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Re: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Rich Cherry]

You should look at Sarah Kenderdine's work:

http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/cultural_data_sculpting_omni_spatial_visualiza.html

http://www.niea.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-sarah-kenderdine

Rich


On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Haley Goldman, Michael <
mhaleygold...@ushmm.org> wrote:

> With the NYTimes about to launch its VR documentary "Displaced," I'm trying
> to find good past or present examples of 360-projection domes at museums (I
> already have plenty of examples of VR headsets, thank you).
>
> Most of what I've seen so far has been science based - which is great but
> less applicable - so I'm looking for a variety of examples and a better
> sense of the options in technology being used.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Michael Haley Goldman
> USHMM - Future Projects
>
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Re: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Bryan Kennedy]

You might reach out to the folks at the Elumenati [1] and the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory at UIC [2], and generally search under the terms
"projection design." Those two have done lots of interesting immersive and
VR work. Still a bit science focused though...

[1] - http://www.elumenati.com/
[2] - https://www.evl.uic.edu/

bryan kennedy
director, exhibit media
science museum of minnesota
bkenn...@smm.org   651.221.2522


On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Birchall, Danny 
wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> IIRC, this paper by Nick Lambert has some interesting examples:
>
> http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/40555
>
> All best,
>
> Danny
>
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> Subject: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience
>
> With the NYTimes about to launch its VR documentary "Displaced," I'm
> trying to find good past or present examples of 360-projection domes at
> museums (I already have plenty of examples of VR headsets, thank you).
>
> Most of what I've seen so far has been science based - which is great but
> less applicable - so I'm looking for a variety of examples and a better
> sense of the options in technology being used.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Michael Haley Goldman
> USHMM - Future Projects
>
>
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[MCN-L] In-gallery digital exhibits - a few questions

[Ian Smith]

Hi all,

I'd like to pick the group's brains about the creation and use of
in-gallery digital exhibits.

(Disclaimer: I'm a UK-based digital consultant. Amongst other things, I
make two digital exhibit platforms, IGOR  and
Darwin , and I'm talking to as many
heritage folk in the USA and UK as I can to make them as useful as
possible. There's no point making tools that nobody wants!)

So the questions are as follows - there are only a few - I appreciate
different museums will give different answers but I'm intrigued to see what
patterns or shared issues arise:

And please note that this refers to in-gallery exhibits only.

1. Level of expertise. Does your staff have the ability to use a CMS or
other tool with which to build and install a standalone in-gallery digital
exhibit - but also the experience to plan and design it in the first place?

2. DIY or not. Regardless of expertise do you prefer to have complete
control over the reaction of a digital exhibit or would you rather 'hand it
over' to an agency/freelancer. And how much would time constraints affect
your decision?

3. Budget and spending. Both IGOR and Darwin come (at the moment) with
eternal licences i.e. buy it once and remake the exhibit as often as you
like. This means that there is only one purchase required (per instance of
digital exhibit) but also that the initial cost is higher. Would you rather
a larger upfront cost or spread it via e.g. a subscription?

4. Hardware. Do you prefer to use Windows, Mac, Android, iOS for your
exhibits. Will the new iPad Pro influence what hardware you use in-gallery?

5. Connectedness. Do your in-gallery exhibits need to be networked or -
conversely  - do you actively prefer them to be completely standalone?

BTW this is open to anyone with experience of creating in-gallery digital
exhibits, not just museum staff. I'm really interested to hear of your
experiences. And please feel free to reply on- or off-list (
i...@digitalopps.co.uk).

Thanks for reading!

Best,
Ian Smith.



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[MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Lloyd Swartz]

At the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, Texas, we have a dome made 
up of individual screens of different sizes and shapes.  Built almost 50 years 
ago.  Originally had different types of film and slide projectors.  We upgraded 
the dome to using video projectors.  According to the builder this is the 
largest of this type of dome theaters.  Not all of the screens are used.  This 
is a different type of dome theater from those with a single, relatively flat 
surface.  Some screens stick out and others stick back.  Each screen used 
requires it’s own projector.  This makes producing content a challenge.
Lloyd M. Swartz
Media Specialist
University of Texas in San Antonio
Institute of Texan Cultures
A Texas museum
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Re: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

[Birchall, Danny]

Hi Michael

IIRC, this paper by Nick Lambert has some interesting examples:

http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/40555

All best,

Danny

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Haley 
Goldman, Michael
Sent: 03 November 2015 15:57
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] 360-Projection Examples and Experience

With the NYTimes about to launch its VR documentary "Displaced," I'm trying to 
find good past or present examples of 360-projection domes at museums (I 
already have plenty of examples of VR headsets, thank you).

Most of what I've seen so far has been science based - which is great but less 
applicable - so I'm looking for a variety of examples and a better sense of the 
options in technology being used.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Michael Haley Goldman
USHMM - Future Projects


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