• SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    There are also museums that replaced the about-this-painting placards with QR codes.

    jesse-wtf Why? I don't get it. That sounds like such a terrible experience, constantly having to scan a code just to read a fucking description.

    • plinky [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      It do be annoying, fiddling with your phone at every interesting painting, and descriptions are sometimes shorter than before. (Although audio options are pretty poggers when they go in-depth, but its rare)

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Those little audio doohickeys that some museums have are my favorite objects in the world. Museums used to have them on cassette and sometimes they'd let me copy them. As a kid I used to have a cassette for San Antonio's science museum and I'd listen to the dinosaur parts repeatedly.

        • plinky [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Yeah, the annoying part with audioguides they are incomprehensible alphanumeric gibberish on a server (sometimes), not structured folder type deal, so you cant backtrack to them from home :(

    • Wertheimer [any]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      They claim it's also to replace the headsets for audio explanations, etc., but either way it's bullshit. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2022-01-22/essential-arts-qr-codes-in-museums-blessing-and-curse-essential-arts

    • Sinistar
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      10 months ago

      soviet-hmm Why not have a written description, and then a QR code next to it that leads to more in-depth information?

      only-throw No text! Only QR code!