The German Museum of Science and Technology (the " Deutsches Museum ") is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world. It receives 1.5 million tourists every year and displays 28,000 exhibits from 50 different fields.
Georg Hohmann, head of the digitization department, said: " about 10 years ago, we decided to pay more attention to digitizing museums and explore what different virtual space and physical space like this can bring to tourists. Today, NavVis technology allows us to show a new face of the Deutsches museum to everyone."
Today, let's take a look at how the NavVis VLX helped the Deutsches Museum to digitize.
Tackle complex environments with Navvis VLX
Georg Schroth, chief technology officer and co-founder of NavVis, mentioned that In such a temple of knowledge, the opportunity to use Navvis VLX is rare.
" We designed the Navvis VLX with the intention that you can use it in almost any environment to obtain the closest depiction of reality. The Deutsches Museum is a perfect testing environment for VLX, because you can find anything you can imagine here." He explained.
"There is a simulated mine in the basement. You can place mechanical equipment in this complicated environment. You can also scan several stairs and even climb into small niches to scan. The NavVis VLX can do anything."
" We designed the Navvis VLX with the intention that you can use it in almost any environment ."
Get a high quality point cloud from the Deutsches Museum.
The Deutsches Museum's partnership with NAVVIS dates back to 2013. That was when the museum's curators first met four entrepreneurs at the Technical University of Munich who were working to revolutionize indoor navigation.
Georg Hohmann said: “When we first approached NavVis, our original idea was to support NavVis only as a technology partner and become a sponsor of an innovative idea in the technology sector.”
"But we soon realized that this is also an opportunity for museums."
"The scan data we obtained from NavVis VLX can be used for more than just an online visit. "
At present, The museum is undergoing a major renovation, which includs the entire remains of the famous "Museum Island" on the Isar River in the center of the city.
"We will start from scratch and redesign all the exhibitions. At that time, we realized that the scan data we obtained from NavVis VLX could be used for more than just an online visit. We can use it to measure the whole room without worrying about the accuracy of the data, because we have obtained high-quality point clouds when scan all exhibits."
In the future, the museum intends to take further advantage of Navvis's technology to finalize more digital models related to construction as new use cases.
This is how he describes a real situation: "For example, if the ship stops here, then all planes must be transported away. Originally we might have to lift the roof. If you use the clipping and downloading point cloud features in Navvis InDoorViewer, You can easily determine the exact dimensions of individual ships and upload them to third-party modeling software "
"In addition, We can also help curators who want to optimize the efficiency of their exhibitions to meet the needs of those who want to see the effects of their exhibits on the spot without having to put them in the real place. They can directly compare the scanned exhibits with the digital model of the booth to intuitively evaluate the results."
