Collaboration technologies are dear to my heart and something I have been intimately involved in helping to pioneer over the last 20 years with projects such as the Reality Centre and Media Fusion.

Now one of Decision Concepts' clients, Mersive, has launched the Solstice Pod, an all in one wireless streaming device for connecting devices and people in collaboration rooms so all can see and work together seamlessly. 

To see how this technology has been originally developed on large systems, compacted onto PCs and now embedded onto a miniature appliance is amazing and this development is really exciting and very significant to the future of connected working.

Take a deeper look here: https://www.mersive.com/land/solstice-pod/

The latest issue of Attractions Management features the Top 20 Predictions of 2015 and technologies and trends to watch. (page 32).

I am pleased to see that item No 4 is Reactive Environments/Haptics. "The next generation of attractions will be built with reactive environments where multiple outcomes are possible depending on the actions of the visitor." 

This is absolutely the approach that has been adopted for the Inside Explorer system, originally developed at the Interactive Institute, and now being developed by a new spin-off company Interspectral.

Inside Explorer is an interactive, touch screen based exploration environment for visitors to science centres, museums and visitor attractions. It uses virtual autopsy technology from medical imaging and visualisation research in Sweden to create a uniquely compelling experience to explore, the human body, ancient mummies and natural history subjects from collections from all over the world. (See examples here).


The approach has always been that museum visitors should be able to experience the actual science data first hand and explore for themselves, effectively having a similar experience to the scientists and curators making the original discoveries. This is so important and I am really heartened to see in this article that this is now recognised as an important trend.

Find out more here: 
http://www.attractionsmanagement.com/pdf/AM_issue1_2015.pdf

and here: 
http://www.interspectral.com/