BSA326, HoloLens and Augmented Reality Agatha Christie experience, 17 July, 2017

Elephants Can Remember

According to this website, the first scene of Agatha Christie's murder mystery "Elephants Can Remember" is being staged using Microsoft's HoloLens and Augmented reality.  AG reading the scene aloud will be paired with holographic "clues" placed around the room.

"Digital artist Scott Fletcher will present a unique collaboration between Agatha Christie Limited and Port Eliot Estate. Using Microsoft HoloLens headsets, audiences will be immersed in the author’s augmented delivery of the first scene from her 1972 Poirot mystery, ‘Elephants Can Remember’."

HoloLens website

mixed reality performance academic paper
Virtual Reality (VR) appears a natural medium for computer supported collaborative work (CSCW). However immersive Virtual Reality separates the user from the real world and their traditional tools. An alternative approach is through Mixed Reality (MR), the overlaying of virtual objects on the real world. This allows users to see each other and the real world at the same time as the virtual images, facilitating a high bandwidth of communication between users and intuitive manipulation of the virtual information.