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A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS plus the location of points of interest within the cemetery. For each point of…

A mobile app designed to facilitate a self-guided tour of Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, TN. The app displays a map that shows the user's location as determined by GPS plus the location of points of interest within the cemetery. For each point…

An artwork based around a mobile app that is designed to be used at a cemetery. The cemetery in question changes as the artwork must be set up for a particular site. Vanitas presents the user with a combination of text, images and audio recordings…

A prototype augmented reality (AR) system for use in a historical cemetery. It is a set of binoculars (handheld or fixed to the ground) that provide a visual AR overlay on specific areas of the cemetery to provide further information about their…

A prototype installation designed to prompt visitors to investigate out-of-the-way paths or landmarks in a cemetery, without giving them specific information or requiring them to look down at their phone. It is a solar-powered box that projects an…

A prototype system for facilitating self-guided tours of a cemetery. The system is composed of two parts. The first part is a "book-like device" that the visitor carries with them as they walk around the cemetery. The second part is a network of…

A piece of wearable jewellery that is associated with one or more persons who are buried at the cemetery. The jewellery piece is designed to be worn by a visitor, and grows warmer as the visitor approaches the site of its associated grave, until…

A crowdsourced online database of graves in Canada. Users upload details about each grave including its location, basic biographical details of the deceased, a transcription of the headstone and photographs of the gravesite.

A sound system designed to play music inside a buried coffin. Speakers embedded in the coffin lid (underground) connect to a computer server embedded in the gravestone (above ground), which displays the song that is currently playing on a small…

A service that creates ground-level explorable virtual recreations of the cemetery using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Also provides sales, marketing and management software services.