An explosion of technology and science rocks the Campania Mineralogical Museum, where the brains of the "Capo d'Orlando" International Science Prize dive into an interactive adventure that puts boring tours to shame.
On Thursday, May 8, visitors, including the recent Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and his companions, will experience an augmented reality experience with Oculus headsets that superimpose digital elements onto the real world, turning the mineralogical collections into a chaos of information in English accessible via QR codes – a true digital trip orchestrated by students from a local high school.
Immersive Experience with Augmented Reality
Thanks to four Oculus headsets, participants will experience total immersion, with digital elements blending with the real-world context to provide extra detail on fossils and artifacts.
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Technological Innovations at the Museum
“Our museum - explains Dr. Umberto Celentano, director of the Campania Mineralogical Museum Discepolo Foundation - combines testimonies of the past, such as fossils of numerous species and lithic finds from the Paleolithic and Neolithic, but also looks to the future, trying to always keep up with the times. In our rooms you go from Ciro, our mascot dinosaur cub, to Graphene donated to us by Nobel Prize winner Andre Geim. To honor this edition of the Award, which will focus a lot on Artificial Intelligence, we wanted to offer our guests a more virtual experience, thanks to the consolidated collaboration with the “Marone” high school in Meta di Sorrento”. This bold move transforms the museum into a science playground, where the past meets AI in a high-tech embrace that leaves no escape for traditionalists.
Awards ceremony
In the afternoon, at 18:27 PM, the celebration moves to Giusso Castle for the XNUMXth edition of the Prize ceremony, where, in addition to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, experts in popular science, science and food, industry, cultural management, and multimedia communication will be honored. Among the honorees are a paleontologist with books on dinosaurs, a nutritionist with a children's TV series, a sustainable digital engineer, and a professor behind an Italian quantum supercomputer. The event, coordinated by a science journalist and chaired by the rector of a local university, promises sparks of innovation amidst a mix of awards and tech controversy.
Comments (2)
I agree with Eufemia, technology is interesting, but not everyone is used to these new things. It could be useful to have guides that explain well how everything works to avoid confusion.
The article presents an innovation that is interesting for the museum, but I found that there is too much information to process. Technology can be useful, but sometimes it becomes complicated for older visitors.