Tag Archives: geospatial

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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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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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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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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Visualising rich spatial data with 3D and AR

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Matt Ramirez

Over the past couple of months I have been working with colleagues from the Landmap service at Mimas to create an AR experience around the UKMap dataset. The UKMap Collection is one of five collections provided free of charge to … Continue reading →

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