Interactive 3D station (McCord and CHIN)

This clip is a Canadian Heritage Information Network production.
The McCord Museum launches an innovative initiative, a very first in the country: a large and entirely interactive ACL screen station, and a website that present unique content in 3D. This fascinating experience on the exploration of Canada gives the user access to objects that become larger than life.

Marie-Claude Larouche (Head, Multimedia Programmes): This is a rather unusual experience. In fact, in a certain way, we can see the details from up close, a lot better than we could otherwise see them, we have various points of view of the objects, various points of access. In a certain way, just by moving ones hand and thus moving the object freely, we find ourselves restoring, if I can say so, a certain natural relationship with the objects. And so, for us, it is rather interesting to see how the visitor establishes a contact with this station as such, as well as with the objects. This is what we seek to document by studying the benefits that such a station can have for visitors. The goal is, in fact, to test 3D digitalization technologies and various visualization functions without touch, as well as on a website, and to define the benefits, for visitors, of such a device that we find rather innovative. Various partners are associated with this project: the National Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, the Museum of Nature, as well as the Quebec firm Symbioz. The results of this experiment will be shared with the museum community through CHINs privileged access, on its Knowledge Exchange website, as of next February.

Entitled Air, Land, Sea: A Story about Exploration!, this interactive virtual exhibit is now shown to visitors of the McCord Museum, in Montreal. This initiative is part of a pilot project, jointly carried out by the McCord Museum and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Furthermore, the online version will be made available through the Virtual Museum of Canada.

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• interactive
• 3D
• station
• McCord
• CHIN