*I wonder how this rather Gothic "haunted house" style of AR will act on the nerves of naive viewers.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/heritage-sandbox?page=all
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"Using the recordings, the team is to design a smartphone app, probably initially for the Android platform, that will pick up content via Wi-Fi base stations. Says Clarke: "The idea is that the experience will be completely hands-free so you don't have to engage with the app. Your interface with it will simply be by walking around the venue. The phone becomes a listening device to let you tune into these memories that haunt the building."
"The team is currently testing an indoor positioning system and trying to make this as accurate as possible, even down to specific seats. Clarke hopes that this technology could then be used to help the public explore other heritage buildings "or indeed any contexts to do with memory".
"This is the ultimate aim of all of the projects. They are a bid to bring academics, artists and technologists together to create platforms that could be deployed around the country at a vast array of heritage sites where they will bring history to life; and engage the public using the memories of others, whether alive or long gone."
