This article reminded me of the struggle that museums have in getting people engaged is the same struggle that teachers have for their students. Making the art as real as possible is one way to do that. Bring in technology that is what is real in peoples live today. It seems more exciting to go online and check out a virtual museum, then maybe actually going to one because when in the museum it takes more engagement on me to go and read all the information boxes than it would be if I were to go online and a box would pop up or a virtual person would be programmed to point out the interesting facts of a particular piece of work. That is interactive both sides are interacting.
I think this is really challenging, to continuously update technology, predicting trends and not fad in what people are interested in. I guess it does help that they get a lot of their feedback from the user, but still, it takes a lot of time and money.
This kind of technology opens up a lot of doors for people to see art museums from all over the world. Soon there will almost be no place that a person will not be able to see through the Internet. I wonder if this will spark more travel? The Virtual world can only show so much of the physical world, will it engage people enough to take action? I would think that museums websites would want people to actually physically come and not just be a part of the community online.
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