Tech Trends: Black History Goes Mobile
RSSBy Lauren Barack
A free mobile application helps users learn about local black history through their smartphones. To access the app, download the Layar browser (available for iOS and Android devices) then search for "black history." After your mobile's GPS determines your location, the app can direct you to nearby points of interest, providing historic images, video, and other information. Created by Retha Hill, director of the New Media Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, the project currently covers about a dozen cities, including Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, and New Orleans. In addition to expanding geographic coverage, Hill is developing a dedicated iPhone app. While it's "still pretty cutting edge," AR can expand students' perspective on history and the world around them, says Hill. "Sure it's cool for a person to find a Starbucks using AR, but I want to make sure that history, news, and other relevant content about a city is available for him or her, too." This article originally appeared in the newsletter Extra Helping. Go here to subscribe. Keeping history alive by telling that history:
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The Mobile Black History Project connects users to nearby sites significant to the African-American experience through augmented reality (AR), which adds a layer of digital information over the scene captured in your camera's viewfinder. A user walking around the National Mall in Washington, DC, for example, could hold up a smartphone and get information about the August 1963 march led by Martin Luther King, Jr. or learn about singer Marian Anderson and her connection to the Lincoln Memorial.
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