Category Archives: Team SCARLET

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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Virtual Vivarium Launch @ Reptile Big Saturday Event!

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

I had a fabulous time this weekend at the Manchester Museum – Reptile Big Saturday event! The day was full of activities from creating a sock lizard to holding a real life Chameleon.  Tom (User Experience Developer) and I (Geodata … Continue reading →

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Mapping Amphibians and Reptiles!

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Gail Millin-Chalabi

As previously posted I am working with the Vivarium team at Manchester Museum as part of the Mapping the Museum Project. One of the main objectives of the project involves illustrating the spatial distribution of 20+ amphibians and some reptiles … Continue reading →

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Exemplary AR Achievement for Team SCARLET

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Louise Egan

The SCARLET team from Mimas attended a dazzling award ceremony, held on 28th November in London, hosted by comedian, writer, TV presenter, Sandi Toksvig. The Mimas-led Team SCARLET project was shortlisted for the Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year in … Continue reading →

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New Workshop – A Practical Introduction to Augmented Reality

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Louise Egan

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Jisc Netskills to run a new Developing Augmented Reality for teaching and learning practical workshop. The workshop is to be held on the 4 December, and will be hosted at the Netskills Training … Continue reading →

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Discover Geology AR Field Trip

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

Yesterday, a coachload of enthusiastic people embarked from the Manchester museum to Castleton in Peak District to test the new University of Manchester Discover Geology app, co-developed by Mimas, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Faculty, and the Manchester Museum. Early feedback … Continue reading →

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AR(t) magazine – new article by Matt Ramirez, the Mimas lead AR developer

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

We are really pleased to announce that an article written by Mimas’ Matt Ramirez is featured in the latest issue of AR(t) magazine.  The article talks about lessons learnt and knowledge gained through both the SCARLET and SCARLET+ projects, and … Continue reading →

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Innovation in Education – Augmented Reality, a Manchester Showcase

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Laura Skilton (formerly Shaw)

Mimas have been developing Augmented Reality (AR) experiences for use within education for over two years and in that time we have amassed a wealth of experience, knowledge and examples. We have barely touched the surface of its potential; but … Continue reading →

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Landmap AR map content released

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

It is my pleasure to announce that the geospatial AR channel developed in conjunction with Landmap is now live. It allows the user to visualise this data in a whole new way. Through a highly detailed feature rich map, users … Continue reading →

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