Deploying augmented reality to help engage the public with palaeontological applications

Bennett, Matthew R.; Budka, Marcin; Belvedere, Matteo; Reynolds, Sally C.

doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.10.001

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“…Moreover, AR gives the visitor the liberty to experience the exposed material and the digital implementations at their own pace, without the use of immersive or special devices other than one’s own tablet or smartphone (Azuma 1997 ; Rigby and Smith 2013 ; Yuen et al 2013 ; Akçayır and Akçayır 2017 ; Fistola et al 2020 ). It has the asset without replacing neither the physical world nor the real object with digital copies, as VR (Bennettet al 2022 ), but rather expanding the potentiality of the exhibitions with additional resources. Several authors have discussed the benefit effects that AR have to count the ‘digital isolation’ involving the user in first person (despite the actual objective of the AR experience, e.g.…”

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Nurturing Italian Geo-palaeontological Heritage with Virtual Palaeontology: Preliminary Report of Its Application in Two Natural History Museums

Lucenti

Rook

2023

Geoheritage

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In this manuscript, we present a preliminary report on the use of virtual palaeontology methodologies in two natural history museums in central Italy, the Geology and Paleontology Museum of Florence and the Civic Museum of Natural Sciences of Faenza. Despite the differences between the museums (in terms of history, type and size of the collections, etc.), the use of surface and computed tomography (CT) scans has allowed the acquisition of a consistent amount of data to create digital copies of selected specimens and to plan several future projects sparked from the use of these methodologies. Our first step focused on the selection of the scanning sample: type and historically relevant specimen in the case of the Florence museum, and fragile and relevant specimens for the Faenza museum from a local yet internationally known site, Cava Monticino, dated to the Late Miocene. The scanning techniques included the use of three high-resolution scanners, with different specifications, to acquire surface data and a medical scanner to obtain CT scans. The outputs of the surface scans were excellent digital copies of the specimens, whereas tomography allowed the first investigations and visualisations of the presence of embedded bones in the fossiliferous blocks of Cava Monticino. The resulting 3D and raw data represent invaluable resources that the two museums are currently planning to implement in their exhibitions using digital visualisation devices and techniques (e.g. AR web apps, touchscreens) or 3D-printed touchable specimens.

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“…In a similar way, scientific museums could take advantage of the high appeal of digital fossils to boost their visibility and engagement with the general public, enabling people to visit exhibitions on the web or for visitors to experience the museum collections in an innovative way (e.g. Duguleana and Voinea 2018 ; Bennett et al 2022 ).…”

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confidence: 99%