The new summary of the Manifesto is available here. Dear Colleague, We would like to extend our warm thanks to the many members of the DCH community who commented so positively and contributed so constructively, having read the first version of the ViMM Manifesto. We...
Since the first meeting, Archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to...
Fraunhofer IGD recruits a full time color imaging fellow for three years within ITN-EVOCATION (EU H2020 research and innovation project under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813170 ) with an option to do a PhD at Technische Universität Darmstadt,...
VINS, a business start-up supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, uses the potential of georeferenced data acquisition, 3D modeling and virtual reality to offer its customers innovative solutions. VINS provides industry-specific...
SMI Sets New Standard With Eye Tracking Glasses at 120 Hz SMI’s Eye Tracking Glasses now operate binocular at a native 120 Hz sampling rate across the entire trackable field of view. This allows for low latency synchronization with motion capture, virtual reality and...
Roadshow "Industry meets IT" We cordially invite you to the third stop of our roadshow "Industry meets IT - VR/AR applications for industry" on 26.03.2019. Venue is the CINIQ Center/Smart Data Forum at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. With the focus on Virtual...
Free online tool for a scientific documentation of decissions made at virtual reconstructions... Contribute your virtual reconstructed work! Read more...
PLUGXR brings in limitless possibilities Having worked on Extended Reality extensively for over 6 years, we knew the challenges and the dilemmas that have to be confronted. PLUGXR is our gift of sweet labor for a technology we have so longed to see being used to its...
ASTANA – Kazakh women’s history museums educate and empower women, providing an awareness-raising platform and tools for overcoming discrimination, said Women of Kazakhstan founder Dinara Assanova in an interview with The Astana Times.Collage of Kazakh women. Photo...
Artists at Sundance are tapping into your own movements to make immersive experiences feel more natural.
The user benefits and disadvantages of the new Copyright Directive's effects on nine different issue areas are analysed on the website Communia. Museums and other cultural heritage institutions are deemed to benefit from the new directive when it comes to serving...
The application window for Horizon 2020 funding programme will close on 14 March 2019. Two funding strands are of special interest to the museum sector. 1.Collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion Apply by clicking here and find more...
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.
Let yourself be dragged into the world of Louis XIV and visit the beauty of the Versailles palace, where you can discover freshly-renewed Marie-Antoinette’s Hamlet, now also available as virtual reality created by Stéphane Agullo and his team with the use of photogrammetry.
‘Wonderscope’ is a magical window into an interactive world where kids learn to read using augmented reality.
iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference will bring...
The Time Machine FET Flagship builds a Large Scale Simulator mapping 2000 years of European History, transforming kilometres of archives and large collections from museums into a digital information system. These Big Data of the Past are common resources for the...
Cultural and Creative sectors occupy a significant place in today’s European economy, by contributing to innovation, investment, digital modernisation and cultural tourism. The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) generate indeed around €509 billion per year,...
NYT app simulates a Higgs particle reaction using AR technology.
Based on the media provided it appears as though Tellable will be utilizing Amazon’s existing Sumerian Hosts, customizable digital characters which can be used to narrate scripts, answer questions, and help guide users through a program or experience.
A team of researchers bring 2D photos to life with automatic 3D animations.
VR is a growing platform for artists, thanks to several tools that have come online in the past few years.Imagine going to an art gallery, but instead of merely looking at art, you travel inside the painting and become part of what’s happening in the scene. Artists...
Virtual reality is currently experiencing a spectacular renaissance. The concept itself is nothing new; researchers and entrepreneurs have been exploring the subject for several decades now, with varying degrees of success. The website “The Verge” even put out a...
In recent years, our way of experiencing the world is rapidly changing, thanks to the use of new extraordinary technologies. The museum sector is adapting to this digital revolution by adopting cutting-edge technologies, such as augmented reality, which is used to...
From Pokemon GO to Snapchat, augmented reality is a widely successful platform to engage app users in fun and interactive ways. Many AR apps are being used in museums to make their exhibits accessible to any visitor. There is a myriad of effective ways to engage...
John Pether is a man on a mission — a multimillion dollar dream to establish in Sarasota a state-of-the-art Florida history museum. A gargantuan undertaking to be sure, but Pether brings to the task the zeal, coupled with a well-thought-out and researched plan with...
Musée de l'Orangerie’s first virtual reality (VR) experience opened in December 2018 in conjunction with the opening of Monet – Clemenceau Collection, part of the Clemenceau “Father of Victory” 1918-2018 commemorative.The inspiration for the Musée de l'Orangerie’s VR...
University of Minnesota researchers aim to bring virtual reality experiences to people living in senior care facilities, expanding the accessibility of museum exhibits and exploring possibilities of the technology. Faculty in the College of Design and the Goldstein...
Nancy Baker Cahill, Wesley Allsbrook, Drue Kataoka and Jorge R. Gutierrez break down walls (and through glass ceilings) to take art into the next dimension.Virtual reality and art have been intermingled since its mainstream inception, with painting via Google’s Tilt...
The first consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset – a display device for viewing and navigating computer-generated, or ‘virtual’, environments – was released in the spring of 2016. That summer, I had my first virtual reality (VR) experience. I knew...
A very nice collection of 3d scanned objects, sites and monuments in italy has been made available with the help of 3d archaeo lab. The objects can be viewed and selected items can be downloaded for non commercial use. Site...
In early September, a fire roared through the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying up to 90 percent of its precious collections. The extent of the damages was “incalculable,” Brazil President Michel Temer stated on Twitter at the time....
Pimax VR Headset is offering the highest resolution on the market featuring a 8K display ( 2 x 3820 x 2160 pixels) with over 16 million pixels lighting up a clear world Richer details present a more vivid world of VR Even Unable to distinguish between virtual and...
Introducing VIVE Cosmos, a new premium PC VR system, and a vision of the virtual future. It conforms to your wants, your needs with surprising ease and versatility. Read more......
30 000 years ago Sungir people — European early modern humans — were living on the territory of Central Russia. In the hostile conditions of Ice Age they reached an amazingly high level of craftsmanship and left more than 80 000 cultural and household artifacts at the...
Recently, I saw one of the greatest exhibitions of all time: all 36 of the extant paintings by Johannes Vermeers all gathered in one place -- including the celebrated Girl with a Pearl Earring -- in one exhibition. And all I had to do was download the Google Arts...
ProVr is dedicated to aid quality production of VR content and links up existing content provide (eg. VR Studios). A interesting article on theyr website deals with a comparisment of different museums and how they use or implement VR to their exhibits....
The challenges of integrating interactive media into the museum experience are manifold. New technologies can engage but also potentially alienate museum visitors who have different cultural backgrounds and varying degrees of knowledge about the art form, history, and...
A new special issue of ICOM’s peer-reviewed journal, Museum International, is dedicated to the theme “Museums in a Digital World”. This issue includes an article by Ana Carvalho and Alexandre Matos (ICOM Portugal) about the Mu.SA project. The article is...
Image credit: obs/ZKM Karlsruhe/The Nest Arts Company Africa is changing – radically – and digitization is playing a pivotal role. On this continent that has the world’s youngest population, digital practices are emerging that transform Africa’s societies and their...
View of Humayun's tomb from Char Bagh (Four Gardens), Image Credit: Udit Kapoor Delhi-based Augtraveler built an AR app and platform that uses technology and multimedia content to help consumers learn about and interact with sites and monuments. It narrates the...
Thanks to the patronage of The Polonsky Foundation, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library have engaged in a partnership which aimed to digitise, scientifically catalogue and showcase an outstanding collection of 800 medieval manuscripts produced...
The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers international artists working in the field of artificial intelligence the opportunity to gain a residency at a scientific partner institution and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The first residency will focus on...
Seven leading British organisations from the fields of culture, entertainment and education have announced a pioneering collaboration which plans to reimagine the museum visits of the future using storytelling and cutting-edge virtual technology.
The cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci comes for the first time to the south of Germany, to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The event will begin with a kick-off at the Munich City Library on 6 and 7 April 2019. The results will be presented to the public at a large...
Last month, in December, the winners of the cultural hackathon "Coding Da Vinci Rhein-Main" were announced in Mainz (Germany). The first Coding Da Vinci Rhine-Main ended after five weeks with a festive award ceremony in the Landesmuseum Mainz. Open source applications...
Image Credit: Erfgoed Gelderland For people between the ages of 15 and 25, museums are considered boring. This is not only the case in Kleve, not only on the Lower Rhine or in the Euregio. Everywhere institutions are looking for solutions to inspire young meshes for...
Dear colleague, Applications are invited from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications in order to fill one (1) full time Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Fellow Position in the newly established Unesco Chair on Digital Cultural...
Image credit: Museum Narrenschopf Dürrenheim Museums of Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht How can intangible aspects of cultural practices and customs be experienced digitally and the knowledge about them mediated interactively? The carneval museums Fastnachtsmuseum...
Forget about ordinary 3D exhibits in the museum! With Trick Eye Museum’s very own Augmented Reality Technology (AR:T) implemented onto the installations, you can be immersed with the thrilling sound, lights and other effects that create realistic illusions.
In their new exhibition, the artists unlock a hidden world via the use of an AR app available on the viewer’s mobile devices.
Smart caption glasses are a revolutionary new way for people with hearing loss to enjoy performances at the National Theatre. When wearing the glasses, users will see a transcript of the dialogue and descriptions of the sound from a performance displayed on the lenses of the glasses.
The Notable Women AR app helps you discover the accomplishments of activists, artists, scientists, business leaders, writers, civic leaders and more—right on the money in your wallet.
In these artworks, the viewer enters into the added reality created by the painter, that empowers the static picture with realistic dynamic details.
Snapchat has created an augmented reality version of the famed Big Ben tower clock building that enables Westminster residents and visitors to see the tower in its intended splendor, free of the current restoration coverings that hide it from full view.
Augmented reality (AR) technology is one of the most exciting advancements of our time. It can generate empathy and new perspectives by transporting people, sometimes literally, into the shoes of another person with no barriers in time or space. Not surprisingly, many...
“Just because they like your food doesn’t mean they accept your culture and who you are,” chef Jenny Dorsey tells me with an air of defiance. “People pick and choose what they like and take what they want.” It’s a sentiment that rings true for many of us in the...
Researchers from Queen Mary University have helped create the Xingu Village installation taking visitors to the heart of Brazil’s native communities.The university’s People’s Palace Projects at Mile End has teamed up with the Horniman Museum in south London for an...
A new 3D augmented reality app that allows users to visualize and create virtual Appalachian gardens has launched and its developers hope it will both educate and inspire nature lovers.Maria Harrington, an assistant professor of digital media, along with Zack Bledsoe...
In virtual reality (VR) there are plenty of ways to enjoy art, with apps and experiences like the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM) No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man on VR social platform Sansar, or how about Dreams of Dali for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift....
From September we cordially invite you to explore the sunken wreck of an antique merchant ship virtually in the Museum of Ancient Shipping. At the same time we would like to invite you to participate in our scientific study, with which we want to examine the new...
Find Top Virtual Reality Companies, Innovative Virtual Reality App Developers from the list. Best VR Development Companies helps you to develop Virtual Reality Games, VR Headset, VR Apps, Virtual Reality Videos, VR Glasses and more VR products. Read...
VR grew steadily in 2018. Standalone headsets like the VIVE Focus and Oculus Go tapped into a new market segment and brought new people to the platforms. The heavy-hitters like the Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE kept swinging, while the PlayStation VR led in terms of...
vrglossary.org was created by Motion Brothers. It is a growing repository for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) terminology to help demystify these new technologies and provide guidance for those looking to carve a profession using...
Theological legend or astronomical celestial event? The Bible story about the Star of Bethlehem and the Three Wise Men is widely discussed. At our Deep Space LIVE “The Star of Bethlehem” on December 13, 2018, astronomer Peter Habison brings light into the darkness....
The imperial palace in Beijing, also known as the Palace Museum, is expanding its appeal to the smartphone generation. Their new VR experience is not only delivering a unique viewing experience but also allows people actually to traverse royal gardens, offering...
Virtual Reality (VR), sometimes called Virtual Environments (VE) has drawn much attention in the last few years. Extensive media coverage causes this interest to grow rapidly. Very few people, however, really know what VR is, what its basic principles and its open...
This study aims to investigate the impact of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) on overall visitor experience in the context of museum. In tourism research, few attempts have been made to examine factors enhancing visitor experience using new and emerging...
LG Files Patent For VR Headset With Haptic Feedback And 6 Cameras Aside from the LG 360 VR headset for the company’s range of smartphones, LG hasn’t really tried to enter the virtual reality (VR) market in the same way as rival Samsung. LG has been working on a...
Recent advances in virtual reality (VR) technology allow for potential learning and education applications. For this study, 99 participants were assigned to one of three learning conditions: traditional (textbook style), VR and video (a passive control). The learning...
The resolution of VR devices on the market today is just 1/100 of what the average human eye can see. People with vision that poor aren’t even allowed to drive a car in the real world. The first big step is our Bionic Display™, which lets you see VR in human-eye...
Tech firms in Brazil use virtual reality to help children cope with the fear of medical treatment.According to BBC, the VR Vaccine project is designed to help children feel better about otherwise petrifying medical procedures. Here the children are provided a VR...
Emily Cross and her team uses Cozmo robots to study human-robotic interaction. Image credit: Ars Electronica / Christopher Sonnleitner, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 People’s interactions with machines, from robots that throw tantrums when they lose a colour-matching game against a...
Image credit - Pixabay/ StockSnap, licensed under CCO A research funded by the EU tests the reliability of Video Games for children to diagnose their skills such as stress control, decision-making, emotional recognition and tolerance. Throughout a game, the app...
Maritime traffic in the Arctic region is rapidly increasing. But there has been a huge increase in marine casualties in this region due to its extremely harsh environment and the severe safety challenges for ships’ navigation teams. SEDNA will develop an innovative...
A couple of years before a fire devastated the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro in September, Google's Arts and Culture team started working with the museum to digitize the collection. Just a few months after the inferno, Google has reopened the museum's...
The bid to create a "global digital museum" has been welcomed by scientists, who say it will enable them to study valuable specimens that are currently "hidden" in museum drawers. Museums including London's Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington...
Credits Image: Logosys Logistics The Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund (Germany) develops cross-industry and customer-specific solutions in the area of materials handling, warehouse management, supply chain management, simulation...
2018 was the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Over the course of these 12 months, the European Year showcased the wealth and diversity of Europe’s cultural heritage, highlighting its role in driving economic and social development, and in creating a shared sense of...
Wearable watchers, CCS Insight, had good news and bad news for the virtual and augmented reality industry today. Sales are tanking but look! New hardware!The report underlines just how much the industry has been driven by users of smartphone-based VR, which peaked at...
Interested in Cultural Heritage? Take a look at the latest edition of "ISSUES - the voice of #SSH in #Europe", containing a comprehensive interview with Dr. Marinos Ioannides, director of @UNESCO Chair on Digital Heritage and Chair of the Digital Heritage Lab. Read...
Xponia provide innovative technology to museums to help set-up digital interactive guides that allow visitors to engage with their collections and facilities and are also easy to update.
The National Museum Cardiff ExplorAR offered three different augmented reality experiences, all in three languages (Welsh, English and Japanese), and each one designed to test and explore various different ways of enhancing storylines and elaborating on narratives in ways impossible through physical means.
The ambitious undertaking, painstakingly built by a team of 50 academics and computer experts over a 22-year period, recreates 7,000 buildings and monuments scattered across a 5.5 square mile stretch of the famed Italian city.
Users put on the VR headset and can immediately reach out, grab the 3D character, and begin manipulating any part of its body by putting it different poses in the virtual environment.
Virtual Desktop is a handy utility application that allows users the ability to view and access their desktop computer from the comfort of their Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or WMR headset.
We are very proud to announce that the winners of the Best Innovation Award at the #HeritageAliveEU Fair in Brussels are the #EU Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage and the #H2020 VI-MM projects.Both projects are coordinated by the Unesco Chair on...
For information Nominations are open for the 2020 World Monuments Watch, a global program that uses cultural heritage conservation to empower communities and improve human well-being. The World Monuments Fund is seeking nominations with the potential to improve...
Virtual reality (VR) is now being put to use in myriad ways to help promote travel, and one novel approach that the European Travel Commission has adopted is a VR B2B travel conference—the first-ever EU-China Virtual Travel Fair on Cultural Tourism. The event will...
There is a story that is familiar to almost every resident in Chadayamangalam village in Kollam district, Kerala. Legend has it that it was on a rocky peak near the village that the mythological giant eagle of the Ramayana fell while fighting Ravana. Thereafter, the...
The David Bowie museum exhibition “David Bowie Is” will be released as an augmented reality mobile app for iOS and Android devices January 8th, 2019 – what would have been the late musician’s 72nd birthday. The app will allow fans to explore the hundreds of costumes,...
Amid the opulent and historic confines of Paris, Microsoft is now hosting an exhibit at a local museum that brings a historic map of a Normandy tourist destination to life in augmented reality.The Musée des Plans-Reliefs, a museum dedicated to 3D military maps dating...
Museums and heritage sites offer riveting and enlightening experiences for individuals looking to journey to the unknown past.While these sites and institutions aim to transport visitors to another space and time, exhibitions can only go so far to convey what the past...
What does it take to redefine the word “museum”? How about redefining the word “museum” in an international context, but with the stage set in the United States? Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) partnered...
As vital institutions of society that both educate, and record and preserve history, museums help to shape our community and cultural identity. So, what is it that makes us want to explore one?To start with these architectural landmarks often entice us in with their...
While real museums and exhibitions have to deny access to more visitors for security reasons and to avoid overcrowding, we expect virtual museums and exhibitions to be visited by an enormous number of people in the future. Such a multi-user VR creates potentially...
In Spring 2018 Mazedia, a communication agency working in the heritage and tourism sectors in Saint-Herblain (France), has designed, produced and implemented an augmented reality device in the aquarium’s temporary exhibition space, where seeing animals such as sharks...
2nd Day of the successful fair and VIPs are still coming to our stand #25. The visitors have the opportunity to experience better the hidden part of our #InnovationEU project @MSCActions. Proud to be part of this event! @ICOMOS and @EuropeanCommission @HeritageAliveEU...
Dr. Marinos Ioannides #HeritageAliveEU presentation about the #CulturalHeritageDocumentation of #UNESCO WHL #Monument #ASINOU @ViMMuseum @Unesco_DCH @DHeritageLab @CyUniTech @InceptionEu @MSCActions #itndch @COSTprogramme Action #TD1406 @ProjectCARARE @DARIAHeu...
#cyunitech with #dhrlabcut #unesco_dch at #HeritageAliveEU in #EuropeForCulture #EYCH2018 with #EU #H2020 projects @MSCActions #itndch #ViMMuseum #InceptionEU #ERA_Chair_Mnemosyne and #imareculture #EUHaveYourSay for #InnovationEU in #CulturalHetitage ...
A special day with a room fully packed of Experts on #DigitalHeritage coming from all over #Europe in the spirit of #EuropeForCulture to brainstorm about the lessons learned from their #EU #H2020 projects. #ViMMuseum , #InceptionEU projects together with #unesco_dch...