There are so many interesting spaces in the world, I am always interested in finding new ways to explore them virtually. This time, I venture in to 3D space scanning with Matterport.
Before this experiment, I have already went to an optical illusion museum that have used this technology. I walked through the museum, looked around and found the details are pretty good. I wanted to try it myself.
Luckily, I know someone who is in the wedding business and I got access to this venue for testing this technology. The scanned space is in the link below.
Link to scanned space in Matterport
The potential is there. Thinking back to all of the obscure museums that I have been to that rarely gets visitors. I can bring those in front of anybody who is remotely interested. This lowers the friction of exploration from physically visiting to a place, to just clicking on a link.
The challenge of building a product will be the following:
1. Getting access to places, have a business proposition that makes sense for museums to let someone put everything they have on the internet so that they don’t have to come visit.
2. Time required to make the experience interesting. Tagging items, providing descriptions, video links, talking to curators and getting those in publishable forms.
This is one of those, just build it and people may or may not come.
If a picture of a painting already exist in high resolution, why bother visit a virtual museum with lower quality picture.
That narrows the type of museum to only a certain kind, even then, 3D scanning of objects would be much more interesting, with option to purchase that 3D scanned object, which is a completely different technology that I will explore in the next post.
If you have gotten this far, does this interest you? Would you like to work with me to get a museum scanned?
Cheers.
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