Yisela — Thank you for posting the article. The Gaudi House is certainly an excellent subject for an AR experience to give visitors an insite into the architect’s imagination as well as show them how the home was furnished and lived in by the family that originally commissioned it. I was interested in seeing an example of what the video experience is like. It’s missing from your post but I found one at the Icon Houses website at http://www.iconichouses.org/news/videoguide-casa-batllo
Your post mentions that you used the Casa Battlo AR video in 2015 but, as you point out, the Director of the Museum, Gary Gautier, says they launched the tour in February 2014. What technology did they use for AR development? What were the “heavier and chunky” video devices handed out to visitors? In the video demo of the experience it looks like the AR room furnishings are spatially locked to the environment but the user doesn’t walk through the room to show how the images of the furniture change with the visitor’s shifting perspective.
It looks like some AR visuals, like the animation of the turtle emerging from the lamp, are triggered by pattern recognition. If that’s the case for all the AR features, the room environments would be static in viewpoint.
None of this should take away from the credit Gary Gautier deserves for his forward thinking approach to enhance the visitor’s appreciation of Gaudi’s genious.
It is a reminder of how fast technology is developing today and how every institution that plans to deploy new technology must think about how to future proof the content side of their development investment.
