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- 10. Present in a Museum: Museum Visitor photograph by hazelnutmea via instagram Museums, with their experience in creating built environments that put visitors into meaning physical and social spaces, should be all over figuring out the possibilities of presence in VR. Virtual environments don’t have to look like Museum but what if they think like museums? Photo: hazelnutmea
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Editor's Notes
- Presence: An Introduction ((Or an attempt at a grand-unification for AR, VR, Holograms, Sound Installations, Visiting a Museum, and, yes, even Penguins)) Michael Haley Goldman Museums and the Web 2016 (MWXX) Los Angeles, CA
- This is the year of VR, isn’t it? Images of people in VR headsets
- Novelty - Images of Cracker Jack toy surprise inside packages. When the NYTimes is sending out Google Cardboard as the cracker jack surprise in every subscription - they are taking advantage of novelty.
- Empathy Machine - Images of hearts made out of printed gears Chris Milk suggested in his 2015 Ted talk that VR could be the “...ultimate empathy machine.” But is that enough for museums?
- Apology - image of a word balloon that says “sorry” What does it mean when a teenager apologizes to a Holocaust survivor that isn’t in the room?
- Presence - Slide shows various You Are Here signs The idea of presence - feeling like you are there - is central to the development of VR over the last 20 years.
- Immersion: Pictures of people, animals, and food under water One thing needed to feel presence is immersion - fooling the senses into thinking they are somewhere they are not.
- Engagement: Pictures of people getting engaged, rings, a small “engaged” latch Another element of presence is engagement - being engaged with the content as well as having the experience respond realistically to our actions.
- Questions: This page intentionally left blank There are so many questions that we (as a field) should be asking about this technology that I can’t even start to list them - ethics, sexism, accessibility, etc.
- Present in a Museum: Museum Visitor photograph by hazelnutmea via instagram Museums, with their experience in creating built environments that put visitors into meaning physical and social spaces, should be all over figuring out the possibilities of presence in VR. Virtual environments don’t have to look like Museum but what if they think like museums?
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