Transforming Interpretation through Virtual Reality: A Study of Success on the National Mall

Coffee & Case Studies

This year, we are introducing a new learning opportunity – Coffee and Case Studies. We’ll start early, before the general sessions on Monday and Tuesday with short (30-minute), eye-opening case study sessions, which – along with a cup of hot java – are guaranteed to jump start your learning gears! Come join us!

Transforming Interpretation through Virtual Reality: A Study of Success on the National Mall

This session is sponsored by TimeLooper Inc.

Time: Tuesday, March 3, 7:45 am - 8:15 am

Location: Grand Ballroom, Salon J

Presented by:

Paul Ollig, Chief of Interpretation and Education, National Mall and Memorial Parks, NPS

Andrew Feinberg, Co-founder, Timelooper, Inc.

Yigit Yigiter, Co-founder, Timelooper, Inc.

No interpretive innovation recently has garnered as must attention as virtual and augmented reality. Imagine looking through a window in DC and instead of seeing Constitution Avenue, you watch as the lockkeeper leads a barge along the former canal. With VR and AR, national parks are doing it. Come see a vision of the future as we take you to the past to demonstrate how parks are engaging visitors with history through this emerging technology.