| QR Tours Awarded to 5 Cultural Institutions |
| Friday, 27 May 2011 12:30 |
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Five cultural institutions, from across the United States, have been named the winners of the OnCell QR Tour Contest. The winners will receive a free QR Tour and Mobile Web Service for one year, beginning in June 2011. The QR Tour & Mobile Web affords visitors a multimedia experience complete with audio tour content, logos, images, a tour map, text captioning and GPS-navigational features. Below are the 5 winning organizations: Missouri State Museum: Jefferson City, Missouri Anacostia Trails Heritage Area: Hyattsville, Maryland Michigan Historical Museum: Lansing, Michigan Alcatraz Island: San Francisco, California Historic Elk Landing Foundation: Elkton, Maryland The free QR Tour & Mobile Web Service award will enable winning organizations to offer their visitors an interpretive mobile tour experience accessible by smartphone complete with tour content, logos, images, video, a tour map, text captioning and GPS-navigational features. Visitors carrying Smartphones will simply scan the QR code and stream the OnCell Tour. The QR Tour links to OnCell's Mobile Web Site, which features interpretive content of leading museums, National Parks, galleries, historic sites, CVBS, zoos, aquariums and more. In addition to Mobile Web, OnCell also offers cell phone audio tours, Smartphone applications, mobile web tours, texting games, mobile giving, captioning for the hearing-impaired, geo‐tagging, and a survey/comment line. The ease of access to tour content through the visitor’s own mobile device allows visitors to tailor a tour to their own interests by self-selecting content. OnCell collaborates with museums, historic sites, parks, zoos, colleges & universities, arboretums & botanic gardens, CVBs and other venues where people gather to be entertained and educated. For more information about the contest and the winning projects, visit http://www.oncellsystems.com. About OnCell OnCell is the global industry-leading service provider of informational content to cell phones and mobile devices for cultural sites, parks, and other venues. The audio and video content creates a cell phone interpretive experience that can be accessed at the visitor’s own time and pace. The service includes the OnCell’s state-of-the-art technology platform which allows the venue owner to make real-time changes to their content. Other services include Cell Phone Tours, Smartphone Apps, Audio Streaming, Mobile Web, Mobile Giving, Texting Games and Visitor Feedback. OnCell clients include Grand Canyon National Park, The George Eastman House, U.S. Botanic Garden, The Smithsonian, Aquarium of the Pacific, Independence Hall National Park, Key West Botanical Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia's Museum Without Walls, The Norton Museum of Art and the City of Houston. For more information, visit http://www.oncellsystems.com # # # OnCell powers interactive mobile tour experiences, including cell phone tours, mobile giving campaigns, text message programs, & Smartphone Apps. |