Augmented Reality

This paper describes the process of the development of our augmented reality application for visitors of the Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. It also seeks to explore the proof of concept of augmented reality within a museum environment.

For any project to succeed it must have a clear and concise goal and objective. For our second coursework, we were tasked with trying to enhance the overall experience of museum visitors. With this in mind, we concluded that the best way to conceptualise a truly significant concept would be to experience the museum in our own individual ways.

We, therefore, decided that we would visit a museum to which none of us had been before. As a child, I was always fascinated with the concept and scale of war, I self-educated myself from a young age and to this day I still try to continuously educate myself in the historical facts of these horrendous events. Although I had visited many museums in London I had not yet visited the Imperial war museum. Our team concluded that this was a great museum for our project.