Ness Botanic Gardens at the Shanghai Expo

Our Microsoft Surface strategic partner nsquared created a very engaging application on Surface for the Shanghai Expo. The three applications built for Ness Botanic Gardens and Liverpool University are designed to enable groups of visitors to simultaneously explore the history of Ness Gardens. The nsquared applications for Ness Botanic gardens also demonstrate the benefits of multi-user table-top computing on Microsoft Surface.

The first application draws the visitors into the gardens with beautiful pictures of the Botanic Gardens and rare plants.

The visitors can then explore the most important dates in the history of Ness Gardens, explaining how Arthur Bulley made his fortune from the cotton industry and invested in gathering plants from around the world to cultivate in his estate. This collection lead to many rare species of plants being conserved in the gardens while they neared extinction in the wild. This vast collection of plants has now become an enormously valuable resource for research and Ness Botanic Gardens and Liverpool University are now a center of excellence for rare plant research.

The last application allows the visitors to explore images of five of the most important plants in Ness Gardens. Each plant species has a number of variations and the participants can explore rich images of these plants.

If you would like visitors to your events to be drawn into engaging beautiful experiences you can contact nsquared by sending an email to enquiries@nsquaredsolutions.com

[Video: nsquared presents Ness Botanic Gardens]

See more from nsquared on our blog.

- Eric (follow Surface on Twitter and Facebook)

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 01, 2010
  Very creative application and visually very appealing - I particularly like the use of the sound effects :)