Explore incredible objects with Civilisations AR
Posted on by Fay Curtis.
Have you been following the BBC’s new Civilisations series, exploring thousands of years of visual culture?
As part of the festival an exciting augmented reality app was created: Civilisations AR. Featuring objects from around 30 museums and galleries across the UK, the app enables you to bring some incredible objects into your house (or wherever you are!).
You’ll find our Divination Bowl on the app, a wooden carving of a mother from South East Nigeria c. 1860 – if you look closely you’ll see a baby wrapped on her back. Here she is in the front hall of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, precariously balancing on the balcony in imminent danger of being crashed into by the boxkite. A perfectly reasonable place to put a museum object, we’re sure you’ll agree!
We’d love to see where she might end up. Share your photos from the app with us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
One comment on Explore incredible objects with Civilisations AR
It should still be able to sense something was moving, or if it thought the object was stationary it should have recognized it was on a collision course with a stationary object. We have had computers that could accurately predict the path of an object and the collision path of another object since the 1940s.