For this weeks challenge I choose to re-design the British Museum experience and app. I love the British museum but my son being almost 3 years old much prefers the science museum and the natural history museum because of their interactivity.
The idea is that you would have the option to be led by an augmented reality experience where the statues would come to life sort of like the night at the museum.
For each area you would have a totem which would represent that area. For this exercise I have chosen Egypt as I have already created 3d scans of a couple of Egyptian sculptures.
This would be achieved by lidar and photogrammetry scans of the sculpture’s which would then be reverse engineered into animated 3D models. You would also need a scan of the entire floor area for your models to interact with.
Outside each area as seen below the British museum already have in-place sculptures which represents each area. The idea would be that you would scan the QR code at the base of the sculpture to start the experience and be led through the area by a live sculpture which in turn would introduce you to another sculpture which would also have a QR code at its base.
Once you have selected your area and scanned the QR code underneath the totem, choosing your language the sculpture will appear to wake up from a long sleep and introduce himself in the chosen language and brief you on the area you wish to explore. Once you have completed the intro you will be instructed to follow the yellow path and begin the tour.
The above scans are quite clean and would be probably good enough to reverse engineer as they are into an animatable face. The idea would be that it would be mapped in a way which you can just talk into a program and it automates the task once you have created all the correct parameter’s. i did try a quick auto retopology which didn’t seem to bad but would need work.
https://facewaretech.com/ (Links to an external site.)
the below shows the AR Egyptian Sculpture in at home. I think this would also enable people to visit the museum virtually too.
https://learn.falmouth.ac.uk/media_objects_iframe/m-4ENgZ4WK75zSgmnCrMurPnYXC3cZHNGE?type=video
I think placing some of the statues superimposed in their original environments would also make them far more immersive.
For example the interior of the Parthenon could be brought to life and the backdrop to the marbles as seen below.
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