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Validating the Roadmap and Action Plan for Digital Cultural Heritage – ViMM Final Meeting.

by Guenther Weinlinger | Feb 1, 2019 | announcement, Events | 0 |

EU Virtual Multimodal Museum Coordination and Support Action project, funded under Horizon 2020, has completed over two years’ work to provide strategic guidance for the European Commission and the wider cultural heritage community, on the future direction of Digital Cultural Heritage.

New PhD Position at the Unesco Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage – Cyprus University of Technology

by Christiana Polycarpou | Jan 9, 2019 | announcement | 0 |

Dear colleague, Applications are invited from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications...

Best Innovation Award at the Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage

by Christiana Polycarpou | Nov 28, 2018 | announcement | 0 |

We are very proud to announce that the winners of the Best Innovation Award at the...

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Oculus Introduces Next Generation Of VR Avatars With ‘Expressive Avatars’ Update

by Petja Janžekovič | Projects, Publications, Technologies

More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets.

360˚Virtual Tours: New Marketing Tool to Boost Your Business

by colleen jansen | Opportunities

360˚ Virtual Tour offers the potential that can engage visitors better. This has become a better option for users in making decisions about business, travel, and entertainment.

Notre Dame is still alive!

by George Giannoulis Giannoulopoulos | Events, Publications

The monuments, such as Parthenon, or Notre Dame, are preserved as far as we preserve the information, the knowledge, the feeling, and the cultural bond of the community of citizens who created them. Digital technologies, documentation, digitization, narration, conceptualisation is a key element in this purpose.

VR Film Places Audience Into A Shared Immersive Experience

by Petja Janžekovič | Events, TA2 - Directions, Technologies

An experimental new VR film experience entitled CAVE will debut later this month during the Tribeca Film Festival, immersing an entire audience into a captivating virtual experience.

Is it AI or a Circus Automaton? Sophia, the world hottest robot at the Meta Marathon in Düsseldorf (Germany)

by Andreas Richter | Events, TA1 - Definitions, TA2 - Directions, TA6 - Discovery, Technologies

Image credits: Seer, Emotions © Takayuki Todo Live, love, party, and work with robots from March...

AN ACTION FOR VIRTUAL MUSEUMS

Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together Europe and the world’s leading
public and private sector organisations working on Virtual Museums and in the wider sector of Digital Cultural Heritage, to support high quality policy development, decision making and the use of technical advances. The partner consortium (see
below) is supported by an expert Advisory Group in building the ViMM Framework, involving decision-makers and expert practitioners in defining and resolving issues spread across 7 interlinked Thematic Areas (‘the 7 Ds’): Definitions - Directions - Documentation - Dimensions -Demand - Discovery - Decisions

Major results will include:

A highly interactive and wide-reaching ViMM communication Platform which:
- enables focused contributions and Working Group discussion by everyone interested
- provides access to innovations, cases of excellence and decision-support
Key events at policy and practitioner/ stakeholder levels and extensive use of social media
- A clearer, evidence-based view of the impact of Virtual Museums and Digital Cultural Heritage on society and the economy
- A Manifesto and Roadmap for Action to be validated at the final ViMM international conference in 2019.

List of consortium partners:

Join us as a member of the ViMM community:

As a member of the ViMM community of experts and stakeholders, you can contribute to this Platform by:

Registering on the site, through a simple procedure which enables you to login.
Posting news, events, examples of best practice, innovation and uses of technology to the Platform.
Joining or contributing to the discussion in one or more of ViMM's 21 Working Groups

You can also follow us and contribute via social media.