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QVHSM: farmAR Launched!

April 1, 2019 | Ray C. Freeman III

In coordination with the opening of the Quincy Valley Historical Society & Museum‘s new exhibit Hope and Hard Work: The Story of Our Farms and Food, our latest app, QVHSM: farmAR was launched on Saturday, March 30 in Quincy, Washington.

An introductory panel introduces guests to the app, including download link and basic instructions. When the app is loaded and the panel is viewed through the camera, FFA students appear to pop out of the same panel to introduce the exhibit itself.

According to our High School volunteer, Spri, who was on hand to help museum guests get the app installed on their phones or loan them a museum-supplied tablet, the new app was embraced with equal enthusiasm by attendees in all age groups and of all levels of experience with mobile apps.

Speakers at the opening included QVHSM Director of Operations Harriet Weber, WORKSHOP 3D CEO Ray C. Freeman III, and Quincy Mayor Paul Worley, among others.

QVHSM: farmAR features video narrations by Quincy High School students and others, and is designed in such a way that more of these narrations can be added to the app over time. We expect that high school students, classes, and clubs will work with the museum staff to continue to enhance the exhibit using the technology that we have created.

Here we can see the Rex Morgan scene, with Ray setting up the shot on the left, the scene ready to be shot in the center, and the final result in the app, as seen in the museum, on the right. Note that we set up the apple boxes in front of the green screen, so that Chase Morgan, playing his own grandfather Rex, could reach out of the wall and interact with them, helping to reinforce the 3D perception of the scene.

As with the apples boxes above, some of the narrations are accompanied by additional 3D items, such as an animated steer who hangs out with Ed the cattleman as he talks about French Fries, or the virtual tractor below, which sits on the lawn outside the Heritage Barn, activated by scanning a tractor silhouette.

The virtual tractor sits side-by-side with a pair of real vintage tractors. It’s hard to get far enough away from this giant John Deere tractor to see the whole thing!

Another component of the app, also developed to be updated over time by local students, classes, and clubs, are the annotated panoramas than can be viewed by looking around in all directions with your camera. These can either be through-the-lens panoramas that point out items in the real-time landscape from a specific point in space, or photos that have been taken for the purpose of viewing in the same way, but from anywhere. WORKSHOP 3D is working with the local drone club, who will be working with the museum staff to add panoramas of local farms, feed lots, processing facilities, etc.

This panorama was taken during the opening and uploaded to the app in real time. The numbers on the panorama indicate annotations that have been added, and that will pop up and provide additional information as the panorama is viewed in the app. You don’t have to be at the museum to interact with this type of panorama.

This project’s goal of creating an opportunity for high school students and other community members to add content over time also pushed us further toward our goal of developing apps with replaceable content, enabling a single app to go beyond the limitations of the amount of content that can be delivered at one time in a single app toward apps that serve as more of a content “pipeline”, delivering Augmented Reality content on an on-demand basis. We took several important steps in that direction on this project.

In addition to enjoying the museum’s wonderful hospitality at the opening, the WORKSHOP 3D team had a great road trip as well. Many different types of wildlife were encountered, as seen above.
WS3D Rocks Quincy, WA
New Drone, Free Drones, & Contest!
Ray C. Freeman III
Ray is founder and CEO of WORKSHOP 3D. He has been a Director of Software Development, Director of Design, Director of Authoring Systems, Architect, Graphic Designer, Artist, Musician, Teacher, and Bowler in previous lives. As a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, it is Freeman’s vision that drives WORKSHOP 3D forward.
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  • Plaidophile: Progress
    April 2, 2019 at 6:53 am

    […] we went back to Quincy for the opening of the museum, and because of the timing involved I needed to go to bed early. The […]

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