MCN 2020 VIRTUAL

In the last decade, more and more museums have created experiences employing Virtual, Augmented, and other realities (abbreviated here as XR). Though we have learned a lot through these projects, they have raised just as many important questions for the field. Several important areas for research have emerged including (but not limited to) questions of ethics, equity and access, educational impact, and financial sustainability.

This town-hall style conversation does not seek to answer these questions but to better define the most important issues as virtual technologies in museums become more mature. Facilitated by a team of professionals with a wide range of experience developing and researching XR in museums, the session seeks to harness the expertise of everyone present to define a shared research agenda for the next stage of our collective work.

This miniature summit on XR in museums will use a variety of techniques to include the ideas and questions from everyone present - including small break out discussions, round-robin responses, and collective documentation of the summits ideas. The results will help not only clarify the issues for practitioners developing museum XR, it will also point the way to collectively addressing these issues.