Pop Up Play Final Research Report March 2015

Pop Up Play is a FREE open source software product that provides creative play for children through its immersive learning environment and mixed reality system.

Use the Pop up Play system and your existing hardware to create your own unique content. This could relate to children's books, gallery or museum exhibits, theatrical productions, or curriculum topics and can immerse participants in projected images and worlds for creative play and open-ended learning. The overarching aims of this research project were to understand how Arts and cultural organisations can access digital technology for creative play and learning, and how we can enable children and young people to access meaningful digital realm engagement.

In response to this our specific objectives were to create a mixed reality play system and support package that could:

Immerse participants in projected images and worlds Enable children to invest in the imaginary dimensions and possibilities of digital play provide a creative learning framework, tools, guides and manuals and an online community Offer open source software, easy to use for artists, learning officers, teachers, librarians, children and young people