| MD-277096-21 | Public Programs: Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Exploring the Cajun Roots: Augmented Reality Tour of Acadia History | 6/1/2021 - 12/31/2022 | $29,961.00 | Beenish | | Chaudhry | | | | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Lafayette | LA | 70503-2014 | USA | 2020 | Cultural History | Digital Projects for the Public: Discovery Grants | Public Programs | 29961 | 0 | 28928.82 | 0 | Research and development to create a prototype for an AR tour and 360-degree panoramic website of nineteenth-century Vermilionville, Lafayette, Louisiana.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette requests an NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery grant in the amount of $29,961 to conduct research for developing design documents for “Indigenous, Creoles, peoples of African descent, and Acadians: Augmented Reality Tour for Vermilionville”, a transmedia project consisting of a site-specific augmented reality tour application and a 360-degree interactive web site. Augmented reality technology overlays interactive media on a live camera feed from a mobile device or an augmented reality headset, so that virtual structures and figures appear to inhabit the surrounding environment. We have assembled an interdisciplinary team of digital media and humanities faculty, and preservation institutions, to develop an engaging experiential learning application for students and visitors to a replica of an early village of Cajun and Creole heritage. |