The interface’s content management is handled through WordPress. The application itself is written in React JS, and communicates with WordPress via a JSON feed

Although the application was built for onsite audiences, the new system leverages web standards for accessibility and sustainability.

As VR creator Anna Henson—associate producer of Styles and Customs of the 2020s—explained in an email, “the museum is responsible for an interaction in which two people’s physical space will intersect. This is, in fact, a very intimate interaction.” Moments of intimacy range from introducing a visitor to VR by pantomiming how to put on the headset, asking for permission to tighten the strap against a visitor’s head, or being the first person a visitor sees when a session is cut short due to in nausea or dizziness. The museum took care to select and train gallery ambassadors who would be sensitive to visitors’ vulnerability. Henson also included a monitor that allowed bystanders to gain a glimpse into what their plugged-in companions were seeing, an effort to create a more inclusive and social experience.

You have machine learning — which loves short and simple feedback loops — and you have social media, which has a business model and interface built around those loops. The two things fit together like a lock and a key. And once these two things come together it is likely to have a profoundly detrimental effect on online culture, and make our current mess seem quite primitive by comparison.

That’s down to a whopping 50kb. But it does look a bit fuzzy. I’m not even going to begin to explain the ffmpeg command line I used, because I hardly understand it myself. ffmpeg.exe -framerate 30 -i isogrid_%0 4d.png -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p isogrid.mp4 Here’s the page I gleaned that info from: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images

That’s 326kb. Looks about the same to me, but significantly smaller. Actually, my initial attempts were horrible. The IM version came in larger than GLC’s output and had all kinds of horrible artifacts. Some research found some command line options that cleaned it up and optimized it nicely. Here’s the command I used to create this image: convert -delay 3.33 -loop 0 -fuzz 2% -layers Optimize *.png isogrid_im.gif

Most of the UI (user interface) elements we needed already existed in our toolkit of parts, with a few modifications.

To really validate these findings we’d need to flip the exercise on it’s head, and see if people know where to find things when presented with just our group names. For this we’d use what’s known as a ‘Tree test’. In this test, all the collections would be subdivided into our groups. These groups would then be presented with only their names visible to the test participants. Participants would then be asked where they would look for a specific collection. The groups we went with for the test are shown below.

The Phillips curve is a single-equation empirical model, named after William Phillips, describing a historical inverse relationship between rates of unemployment and corresponding rates of inflation that result within an economy. Stated simply, decreased unemployment, (i.e., increased levels of employment) in an economy will correlate with higher rates of inflation.