John Glen: Making creative opportunities a reality

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Heritage Minister, John Glen, has written a blog on how the ‘culture and technology sectors can work together to drive new forms of audience engagement, which is a central theme of our #CultureisDigital project.

He writes: ‘By focusing on the synergies between the two sectors, we want to unleash the creative potential of technology and boost the capability of cultural organisations to support our future economy and the wellbeing of the country.

And the technology is developing quickly. Last week Apple updated its latest operating software Ios11 and in doing so made augmented reality accessible to millions of people and handsets globally…

Digital Catapult is a pioneer in this space. The team behind it are exploring how technologies like virtual and augmented reality can really benefit the cultural sector, and how, in turn, arts and culture can benefit the digital economy.’