An out of the box AR experience that enables museums and other cultural institutions let their visitors experience the past in a new way.
Made in collaboration with Museum Wilhelmsburg.
How does it work?
TimeGlideAR lets visitors put on a VR headset and through simple gestures and interactive objects, learn about specific periods and information defined by the insitiution. It uses a web UI linked to a server to easily modify and add new content which gets streamed into the headset. Information can be displayed to the user over a simple screen, a 360° cinema or displayed on a topographical map of the land.
Developing for a public audience
What makes VR so intimidating for people? It's putting on a headset, being in a completely different world and not being able to notice things around you. People lose their sense of direction and get easily overwhelmed when introduced to a new virtual world. TimeGlideVR tried to take as many of the problems that come with interacting with a virtual environment for the first time into consideration as possible. You arent confronted with a big screen of text or plunged into a completely different world. You are in the same room, with just a big red button in front of you. And this is what defines this application. Simplicity that teaches the interactions through simple visual cues.
The idea
Make visits and learning about history fun and exciting and attract new audiences with a fun and engaging AR experience. TimeGlideAR was built with a wide range of audiences in mind, gamifying many aspects of the learning process while keeping interaction simple.
Admin UI and tooling for our partners
To enable our partners to easily modify and add new content to the application, a web UI was developed. This UI includes simple and effective admin tools that make it easy to modify and add new content like text, images, audio, video and 360° videos with a simple timeline editor.