Touch screen delights

HeadQuarters Network Design and Consultancy senior website developer Fraser Campbell demonstrates...
HeadQuarters Network Design and Consultancy senior website developer Fraser Campbell demonstrates how to use the new LiveTouch technology, in Doc Wakatipu's Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre. Photo supplied.
Everything from virtual fly-through videos, imagery and track guides, to weather updates and fire and avalanche safety advice is available at the touch of a screen at the Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu's Queenstown Regional Visitor Centre, thanks to a Queenstown technology company.

HeadQuarters Network Design and Consultancy installed its innovative "LiveTouch" system as part of Doc's $250,000 redesign and construction of the Shotover St centre.

The free-to-use and high-speed web-linked system delivers an advanced information service to people keen to research destinations before their trip.

Four 23-inch high definition screens display in detail conservation areas and walking tracks within the Wakatipu basin, Fiordland, the Wanaka area and Mt Aspiring National Park.

HeadQuarters technical director Uan Spijkerbosch said in a statement the information is fed from a server based within the Doc office, which also goes online to gather weather and up-to-date information about the area, "so everyone from trampers setting out on a big trip to day walkers can head out into the hills well informed and suitably equipped.

"Using Doc's stunning material we gave the service a visual and creative design to help reflect the natural beauty of our region."

Visitor Centre manager Andrew Evans said the work was commissioned by Doc Wakatipu to provide customers with an effective and innovative platform to learn about the range of recreation and opportunities on conservation land, as well as important safety information.

Mr Evans said the touch-screen upgrade was largely because of customer response and had been very well received.

"In the past, we had people constantly touching the television screen thinking it was touch-screen technology, but it would just be playing a video on loop.

"We realised then that something like this would be a great introduction to the centre.

"We're delighted with the result. Almost everyone who comes into the centre engages with the screens."

 

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