Category Archives: MimasAR

Leeds College of Music AR Project

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Matt Ramirez

Over the past couple of months Jisc Mimas have been involved in leading the technical development of a new Augmented Reality resource around the music production studios in Leeds College of Music working with Craig Golding and Ruth Clark. It hopes to … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Fabulous Frogs App: Splendid and Native

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

What can children learn? The development of the Fabulous Frogs App: Splendid and Native completes the second phase of the Mapping the Museum Project. Developed using Junaio this app is an interactive AR tool which is targeted at 7 – … Continue reading →

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Initial thoughts of wearables in Education

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Matt Ramirez

I have been fortunate enough over the last few weeks to get hold of a pair of Google Glass and do some initial research of potential use cases in education. As stated in previous posts, at present there are some … Continue reading →

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Vivarium App Development

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

Posted on behalf of Andrew Gray: Curator of Herpetology at Manchester Museum At the moment Adam and I are working on providing information to Gail Millin-Chalabi at Mimas to support a superb new project which is currently underway called ‘Mapping … Continue reading →

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AR horizon scanning and Big Data

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Matt Ramirez

Augmented Reality has established itself over the last few years as an emerging technology without appearing to generate enough momentum to galvanise mainstream adoption, that is until now. I predict this will rapidly change as “Big Data” becomes increasingly prevalent … Continue reading →

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Handing over the display cases features in CILIP Update

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Louise Egan

We are delighted that one of our AR projects has featured in the latest edition of CILIP Update. The article – Handing over the display cases (CILIP Update, January 2014, p 35) brings to the fore how the team working … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Museum – A new collaborative AR project (#MappingtheMuseum)

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

I would like to introduce an exciting new project which is underway called ‘Mapping the Museum’.  The initial idea for the project came to my mind just before Christmas and since then I have been brainstorming the different directions or … Continue reading →

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Geospatial AR

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

New Team Member I am Gail Millin-Chalabi, Geodata Research & Development Officer (Museum AR & Visualisation). I have joined the Learning and Teaching Team with the aim to develop a showcase of AR examples for the Museum sector. I will … Continue reading →

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Our story so far

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

The following links and videos show the ways in which Mimas has engaged with AR in the past few years across various subject areas to develop both location and object based experiences. Juniper Research has estimated that over 200 million … Continue reading →

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insideAR 2013

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

insideAR is one of the biggest AR conferences in Europe showcasing the latest developments in industry, advertising, marketing and education. It was the first time I had been to the conference and I was pleasantly surprised to see how far … Continue reading →

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