Editors’ Summary: This paper introduces a new mobile app named “Booksnake” that takes a unique approach toward using immersive technology in the humanities. It allows users to display archival materials virtually through projecting a piece of archival document to the user’s surrounding environment via a phone camera. The authors both present theoretical engagement on how the human engages with visual materials and showcase the development workflow behind distributing a mobile app for humanities purposes. Scholars and students who also work with visual technologies like VR and AR would find this paper insightful regarding how the Booksnake team reconsiders whether the content of a visual reading/presentation tool carries more or less weight in the development process of a DH project than the medium.
Editors’ Choice: Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality
