“Hyperrealia: Augmented Reality Cultural Heritage Object Interventions” presented by Henschke, Kendrigan and McCormick




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  • Cultural Heritage Practices (short papers)

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  • Hyperrealia: Augmented Reality Cultural Heritage Object Interventions

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  • Resilient stories

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  • Hyperrealia is a media art collective that explores creative ways to engage with cultural heritage objects and investigates the potential of AR from both creative and critical perspectives. Hyperrealia developed a collection of prototype Augmented Reality (AR) interventions that enable interaction with objects known as “realia”, in the collections of State Library Victoria (SLV), in Melbourne, Australia. In this paper we discuss the possibilities and challenges involved in the creative application of AR technologies and present what we have developed and exhibited, and discuss insights gained from observing public engagement with our AR interventions. Using the medium of AR, we have creatively and experientially linked the past and the present through selected archival objects. This is a way to enable engagement with concepts of living history, by providing visitors with a creative interpretation of historical artefacts and the fragments of stories and information connected to them, enlivening hidden static objects through contextualising research-based narratives.


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