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An early attempt to create an experience of "talking" to a deceased person at their gravesite, developed in the mid-1970s. The solar-powered interactive tombstone included an analogue speaker system and, later, a video display, which played…

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 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…

An interactive museum installation that recreates the experience of talking to a Holocaust survivor about their experiences. A large display screen shows a video recording of a Holocaust survivor, sitting in a chair. Visitors can ask the survivor…

A design for a gravesite holographic projection system, filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in September 2003. The patent described the system as follows: "A system for conveying information about a deceased individual. The system…

A prototype media installation designed to create the appearance of a stone gravestone with moving imagery on its face. The prototype was made out of a wooden frame and transparent acrylic sheet painted to look like stone, with imagery back-projected…

A tombstone with a large embedded digital display that displays content about the deceased person when approached by a cemetery visitor using proximity sensors. The media content may be scrolling text, video or audio.

A design concept for a burial ground at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, England, which won the Arnos Vale Future Cemetery Design Competition in 2016. The concept takes the form of a forest path in which a network of "anaerobic memorial vessels" are…

An audiovisual display system embedded in a gravestone and operated by a remote control device. The patent for the system describes it as follows: "A tombstone for communicating audio and visual data related to the deceased from the tombstone to a…