Using augmented reality (AR) with e-government

“Residents can then view this information on a mobile device, seeing – for example – graphical circles attached to a building containing information (such as opening times for a museum) when selected.”

Here at Talk About Local, we’ve been talking to people across the public sector about the opportunities which augmented reality offers for the delivery of important information for citizens.

Above is just one practical example which Tristan Parker of the E-Government Bulletin picked out during this recent interview with William Perrin about the hypArlocal initiative we’ve been trialling.

William goes on to explain more:

“What augmented reality allows you to do is order that by geography, so you can see things in a geographical way, vividly in the street in front of you. There are very few people in the world doing this, so it’s a great opportunity.

“Councils are the ultimate guardians of local information … and we think there’s a lot of potential for local authorities and other local public bodies who hold lots of data about places to use the service to show their data in a new and imaginative way”

If you’d like to find out about joining the hyARlocal experiment, there’s more at the dedicated project blog here.