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Auckland War Museum Interactive displays and VR Part 1

Auckland War Museum Interactive displays and VR Part 1

Although Aucklands most popular museum carries the name Auckland War Memorial Museum on their website and ads, the three floors actually have laudable displays for Polynesian artefacts, and natural history. The World War I and World War II displays, which are probably the biggest draw, are on the third floor and arguably receive the most attention from curators and sponsors.

The museum team has probably only started to incorporate interactivity, but I really like the touch screen interactive displays for reading letters from military volunteers. The full SD and HD panels worked really well, and made reading and viewing photos comfortable and easy. The size of the panel takes up a lot of space, so it probably wouldnt work in sites such as the excellent Osaka Castle in Japan (my favorite among the museums Ive visited in the last few years).



The second activity I wish more visitors would make full use of is the tabletop interactive gamification of aerial reconnaissaince missions. The tabletop system uses a Dial contact area to start the "game", which involves rotating the Dial to navigate an aircraft across a guided route. Tapping the button on the Dial when a red indicator appears in an area in the map triggers a camera to photograph areas of an assigned sector.



The tabletop allows more than one visitor to control an aircraft and fly across the map to take aerial photos. The mission is complete after you capture the twelve target sites. Oddly enough, the adult visitors didnt understand how to navigate their aircraft by rotating the Dial, and had trouble comprehending the mission objectives. Considering Millenials are so used to Android and iOS mobile app games, I couldnt understand why visitors didnt know how to use the Dial either.

Note: Im a huge fan of the 1990s Young Indiana Jones series, and imagined I was flying with Henri during the episode Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen (1995) while playing the aerial recon game. I had a huge grin when I completed the aerial photos and the Surface tabletop gave a well-written description of the targets.


Continued in Auckland War Museum: Interactive displays and VR Part 2

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