The Viseum Platform
Viseum started in 2016 as a research project at ETH Zurich, aimed at developing innovative tools for art education, focusing particularly on augmented reality. In 2021, Aperion XR AG was founded as an ETH spin-off to make this technology accessible to a wider audience.
The Viseum platform features an app for smartphones and tablets, along with a content management system (CMS). This web-based, modular CMS enables museums and cultural institutions to configure their own apps and independently create and manage their content.
The Viseum App
As an institution, you’ll receive a customized Viseum app designed for intuitive, user-friendly navigation with a sleek, modern design. The interface supports multiple languages and includes accessibility features.
Our app is compatible with both smartphones and tablets, available on iOS and Android, and can also be used on museum display devices.
Leveraging cutting-edge technology, the app ensures a high-quality, seamless experience for your guests. Regular software updates are provided to ensure longevity and continuously introduce new features.
Scanner
With our scanner feature, your guests can effortlessly explore art by simply pointing their camera at it. Thanks to augmented reality, artworks are recognized automatically and the respective content is made available.
You have the flexibility to combine texts, images, videos, and audio to enrich the experience for each work of art. Augmented reality enables the overlay of virtual content, including images, 3D models, and animations, onto the artwork within the camera image.
This seamless integration of virtual content with real exhibits ensures that information is conveyed in an accessible manner, fostering deeper engagement with the artworks.
Tours
In our tours feature, you can curate exhibits into themed tours. Beyond the content elements available in the scanner, interactive elements like audio commentaries and introductory texts can be integrated. This feature empowers curators to infuse tours with a personal touch.
These virtual tours provide guests with in-depth insights into thematic contexts, historical backgrounds, and artistic techniques, allowing them to explore at their own pace and delve deeper into the artistry on display.
Floor Plan
Our floor plan feature simplifies navigation for your guests, ensuring they can easily find their way around the building. Exhibits can be located on different floors and organized flexibly within a folder structure. This allows for thematic and spatial organization, highlighting key works.
With our dynamic search function, guests can swiftly locate specific exhibits.
You have the flexibility to adjust the selection and positions of artworks anytime, ensuring the floor plan remains up-to-date.
Encyclopedia
Within our encyclopedia feature, you can offer guests comprehensive background information on diverse topics, spanning from artists to places, art historical periods, and art collections.
Content is organized flexibly within a folder structure, complemented by a search function for swift access to specific information.
Links between pages encourage exploration of related content, facilitating a deeper understanding of various topics. Encyclopedic pages can be accessed from anywhere in the app, ensuring seamless access to additional information whenever desired.
Article Pages
Utilize article pages within the app to welcome your guests and offer comprehensive information about your institution, exhibitions, and events.
These pages allow for flexible compilation of texts, images, videos, and audio to create engaging content. Additionally, you can seamlessly link content within the app as well as external websites, such as your ticket store.
With the Viseum app’s modern presentation, all content is delivered in a uniform and visually appealing manner, ensuring a cohesive and enjoyable user experience.
Customized Developments
The Viseum platform provides a plethora of options for creating and structuring your own content. Additionally, we offer tailored developments and consulting services to assist you in preparing and designing content to meet your specific needs.
Our services encompass the conception and development of customized content, including augmented reality experiences such as 3D models, animations, visual effects, as well as multimedia content and mini-games.
Additionally, we offer the capability to import content from existing databases and platforms upon request.
The Viseum CMS
The content management system (CMS) of the Viseum platform was designed to offer you a straightforward and intuitive tool, empowering you to design your app according to your preferences.
Every aspect of the app, from the layout of the home page to tours, the floor plan, encyclopedia pages, and augmented reality content, can be managed effortlessly within the CMS.
Characterized by high performance, stability, and security, the Viseum platform is engineered to accommodate a large number of app users without compromising on user experience or reliability.
The CMS empowers you to manage the app independently. Content that you create and edit in the CMS can be made immediately available to all app users: Changes are instantly distributed to all smartphones and tablets worldwide.
With the preview mode, you can review your edits before publishing, while multilingual content is displayed in various languages. The CMS supports all common multimedia formats and optimizes uploaded files for use in the app.
Individual user accounts for team members facilitate collaborative content creation, while integrated virus scanning and regular data backups ensure the security of your data. You also have the flexibility to choose the location of the cloud data center where your data is stored, such as Zurich, Switzerland.