
Whether you have an international brand or a new boutique, activation events are an excellent way to create meaningful connections with your customers, community, and media. The app and VR glasses brought the tent to life, engaging young and old in the history and story of the Great Exhibition. Best of all, activation events get customers into your store and entice them to share their experiences online. This exciting digital activation conveyed the wonder of the original exhibition using contemporary innovations and reminded us that the 21st century doesn’t have a monopoly on virtual reality and also that some aspects of digital activations are pretty straightforward – for example you can create your own stereoscopes by standing on one leg! Once the campaign launches, the work is hardly done.

As it stands today, digital activation and media management includes a lot of grunt work. The most common roadblock in creating a successful digital activation plan is resources. Visitors viewed these via the 1851der app we created, connecting historical innovations to today by turning our phones into Victorian stereoscopes. Digital Activation Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them. Working for the Royal Commission for 1851, we produced used Google Cardboard viewfinders for visitors to view original 3D stereoscopes contributed by the V&A – a type of 3D photography tech presented at the original Great Exhibition in 1851 – alongside NASA’s stereoscopic images of space.

Authentic original VR – the Victorian stereoscope souvenir of the Great Exhibition of 1851 was the vanguard of virtual reality.
