Open-Heritage is an independent online space open to the contribution of the community of heritage researchers, practitioners, professionals and citizens interested in promoting the value of cultural heritage and supporting its public recognition. The platform offers...
Experience Civil War warfare with the American Battlefield Trust’s new virtual reality series. A new immersive storytelling approach puts you back in time as you navigate in 360 degrees how it may have looked, felt and sounded to be soldier in a late-war trench. The...
BLUE SKIES, RED PANIC A photographic perspective on the 1950s in Europe The consortium involved in the project Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope, that is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union, dived into collections of libraries,...
By André HerefordFrom somewhere within the buzz of invited press touring Madame Tussauds DC’s new Alive in AR Augmented Reality Experience, an enthusiastic voice calls out, “Oh look, it’s Rihanna!”A quick swivel around reveals a smiling wax figure of RiRi, while the...
Why I’m building a curated crypto art marketIn May of 2019, I founded blockchain.art because I wanted to address the art market issues that I witnessed during my tenure as the executive director of the viennaContemporary art fair and, prior to that, as the director of...
Image source: MAK - Museum of Applied Arts The Museum for Aplied Arts in Vienna offers the free MAK app with a variety of dynamic and surprising ways to learn more about the Permanent Collections Vienna 1900, Asia, and Carpets! Use the MAK App at home or at the museum...
To walk through Berlin is to walk on historical ground. However, many traces of the past have faded over the years to such an extent that even historians pass by them. In cooperation with many renowned Berlin historical and cultural institutions, the Berlin based web...
Special Session at 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2020), Valetta (Malta) Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH 2020 With the help of artificial intelligence-powered services...
By Naomi ReaSometimes visitors to the Louvre can have a hard time glimpsing the Mona Lisa. It’s just 30 inches tall, tucked behind a layer of bulletproof glass and, more often than not, a throng of tourists jostling to capture selfies. While the museum has recently...
By Peter CrimminsThe Barnes Foundation is using virtual reality to draw people into its world-famous galleries.The downtown Philadelphia art institution is bringing VR goggles to libraries, recreation centers and senior centers around Philadelphia to reach people who...
Image by Mal B; CC BY-ND 2.0 The Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) project arose from the need to document, explore and preserve underwater sites along the Lycian coast of Turkey. In recent decades, this region has distinguished itself as a centre of underwater...
By Lulu ChangVR is going highbrow, and it’s all thanks to the Digital Museum of Digital Art. After all, what better way to enjoy these works than in their native form? In a truly immersive experience, audiences can now visit DiMoDA either in real life, where they will...
By Mark BrownFirst there was Pokémon Go. Now lovers of contemporary art can join the fun by tracking down shimmering, thought-provoking sculptures in a London park.Frieze London art fair has installed its first augmented reality artwork. “No shipping, no installation...
Handwritten page of Beethoven's Ninth symphony, fourth movementImage Source: Wikimedia Commons The Digital Beethoven House Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace is of great importance for people throughout the world and the main attraction in the musical city of Bonn....
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Virtual reality is creating its own space in virtual layouts without relying that much on traditional environments. VR in the supermarket is helping retailers in incorporating VR featured solutions to accommodate online orders and keep in-store shoppers engaged. VR in...
The innovation in the game industry is flourishing at great speed. From the past few years, the Virtual Reality gaming industry has played a significant role.
Image souce: Capture from video on youtube The RoSylerNT funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF) develops interactive robotic training systems for physical and cognitive stimulation. For this purpose, the learning robot should...
Plan3D introduces a new method that effciently computes a set of viewpoints and trajectories for high-quality 3D reconstructions in outdoor environments. The goal is to automatically explore an unknown area, and obtain a complete 3D scan of a region of interest (e.g.,...
Architecture firms and Interior Designers has started incorporating Virtual Reality into their practice. VR is helping startups and enterprises to wrap the technology with their creativity. With many solutions, VR is empowering the Architect sector to offer to...
VR HVAC training can help the assist step by step instruction to the mechanics prior to the installation
By Lhyzie BongonA year after Ayala Museum launched its game-changing diorama virtual reality immersive experience with the execution of Jose Rizal, the museum is now giving the virtual reality treatment to two more iconic historical figures: Andres Bonifacio and...
By Olivia RichmanEver since Facebook announced Spark AR at the 2017 F8 Developer's Conference, the social media giant has been looking for ways to implement its mobile augmented reality camera platform in the lives of everyday users.Facebook has partnered with the...
4th - 6th September 2019, Vienna, Austria The community of the VS-GAMES covers a broad variety of facets of virtual worlds and games including game design, software engineering, computer graphics, human-computer interaction techniques, pedagogical and psychological...
By Tommy PalladinoAfter debuting its virtual Pocket Gallery last year with the works of Johannes Vermeer, Google Arts & Culture has released a sequel that brings even more artists into your home via augmented reality.Available in the Google Arts & Culture app for iOS...
By Chuck MartinAugmented reality has been kicking around for quite a number of years.Back in 2012, I sat down with the leadership team of augmented reality pioneer Layar at its headquarters in Amsterdam, a few years after its founding.The early business idea of AR...
Dear colleagues, Please let me invite you to the Time Machine Conference 2019, which will be held on October 10-11, 2019 at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden in Dresden, Germany.This is the perfect opportunity to network with companies and academia from all over...
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The ViMM Coordination and Support Action has successfully completed its period of work as a Horizon 2020 funded project. With the support of the European Commission we are continuing to develop its work for Europe's community of Digital Cultural Heritage stakeholders...
Photoportals build on digital photography as a unifying metaphor for reference-based interaction in 3D virtual environments. Virtual photos and videos serve as threedimensional references to objects, places, moments in time and activities of users. Our Photoportals...
Image source: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Dresden scientists are currently working on an App that will make it possible to dive into historic Dresden via the mobile phone. HistStadt4D is a cooperation project of the Technical University of Dresden and the...
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Virtual, a term revisited using the example of an initiative of two women from India According to Oxford dictionary “virtual” in context of computer technology means something that does physically not exist but made by software to appear to do so such as a virtual...
By Micah FloresMercury One, a Christian humanitarian aid and education nonprofit founded by Glenn Beck, will present an immersive pop-up exhibition highlighting slavery and abolition in America, past and present, over the weekends of June 29 – 30 and July 4 – 7. 12...
By Amelia HeathmanIconic Parisian museum The Louvre is marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci by teaming up with HTC Vive Arts to create a virtual reality experience about his most famous piece of work, the Mona Lisa.The new experience, named...
Image: NeoSensory exoskin haptic jacket. An ultrathin, breathable garment for immersive VR. Source: Wikimedia Commons Can VR experience be more realistic than reality? To perfection the illusion of immersion full body haptic suits promise to give a fully responsive,...
"162 Ways To Die" is an interactive installation designed to bring the images of the so-called Jesuit panels (Jesuitentafeln) closer to the public at the Stadtmuseum Landsberg. These are 162 small-format copper engravings illustrating the life and work of merited...
Credtis: wikimedia A SPECIAL EXHIBITION AT THE HOFBURG INNSBRUCK On the occasion of the Year of Maximilian, the Burghauptmannschaft of Austria holds a special exhibition for the emperor from May 25 to October 12, 2019 at the Hofburg in Innsbruck. Through the latest...
Exploring Boston’s past via an AR time machine.
By Brian HeaterThe new $100 million Statue of Liberty Museum opens in the shadow of one of America’s most iconic landmarks. The 26,000-square-foot space offers insights into the statue’s storied history, along with context for the majority of visitors who ultimately...
Interview with Oliver Kibblewhite from REWIND At Halo Labs we are on a mission to reveal the ultimate workflow for creating XR digital products. We believe that this mission can only be achieved by working together with the community, sharing knowledge and exchanging...
A comprehensive resource list for building engaging Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences using Web technologies A few months ago I joined Halo Labs to help build our AR/VR design and prototyping platform. After the first interview, I received a “take home”...
Digital Catapult has launched a set of three reports highlighting key trends in the UK’s immersive ecosystem. Guidance to maintain Britain’s leadership in immersive content creation, contained in the reports, aims to keep production world class and British companies...
Finding the right skills, meeting high expectations and finding a balance between being dynamic and achieving a level of standardisation across the industry are major challenges and opportunities facing immersive content makers. Read...
By GRAHAM WALLThe story of Van Gogh is a tragic one.Just like Bach, Dickinson, Mendel and countless others, he wasn’t recognised for his talent until long after his untimely death in 1890.Fast forward to today and Van Gogh’s masterpieces are now highly sought after...
Brand new Questions About Website Contractors. Create My Own Website. Picking a web site contractor First things first, possess a moment to think about and define what sort of website you're looking for. Web pages are the avenue of business success, and generating a...
Image source: https://www.europeana-space.eu/pop-up-museum/ Pop-Up Museum - Where Digital meets Physical The Pop-Up Museum offers cultural institutions and content holders in general the opportunity to showcase their digitised collections and to engage new and...
How does one collect virtual reality? Yet as the possibilities of virtual reality develop, and VR artwork along with them, the art world is forced to wrestle with how to sell and care for such unique creations. Certain artists have a vested interest in hosting their...
How to use Augmented Reality in museums: examples and use cases (from jasoren.com) Museums are fascinating places where you can broaden your horizons without leaving the building within a relatively short period. You look behind the curtains of your reality and catch...
From the Steam site: This virtual museum environment contains 82 models of real world ancient works of art, originating from many ancient cultures of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa. Actual ancient relics that are found on display at the great museums around the...
Excerpt from USA Today Just days later, on Wednesday, the augmented reality team at USA Today managed to add a related interactive 3D experience to its app, displaying the famous structure as it appeared before the conflagration. The news outlet published the...
This book is a collection of articles focused on ray tracing techniques for serious practitioners. Like other "gems" books, it focuses on subjects commonly considered too advanced for introductory texts, yet rarely addressed by research papers. The electronic version...
The Virtual Multimodal Museum Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme has been honored by selecting it to be a success story representing within the topic of " Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage" at the...
Immerse yourself in the ocean and your national marine sanctuaries without getting wet! These virtual reality voyages use 360-degree images to highlight the amazing habitats, animals, and cultural resources you can find in each national marine sanctuary.
Over the last years the info systems comprise one of the many regions of research in regards to business corporation. The planet just where firms develop all their activities becomes more and more complicated. The developing globalization, the process of...
By Lauren Wanko At the Hoboken Historical Museum, postcards illustrate Hudson County’s history. “This is one of our first forays into expanding our mission to include all of Hudson County,” said Robert Foster, executive director of the Hoboken Historical...
By Erika Engel Two new films premiering next month will give viewers a virtual reality experience at two historic sites in Craigleith. There’s a new, fully-submerged and immersive way to tour the wreck of the Mary Ward at the bottom of Georgian Bay without getting...
"Careful checking" of business documents, patents or more substantial portfolios is a complex and usually time-consuming procedure. Often various specialists in addition to interest sets are engaged. The main due diligence data room enables you to preserve time and go...
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.
More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets.
Immersive storytelling will have you looking at environmental issues in an impactful new way. 2019 will be an important year for Earth Day. Climate change, ocean pollution, and animal extinction are rising at a rapid pace. Planet Earth is in big trouble, and it needs...
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.
Qatar daily The Peninsula reported that following the successful opening of the innovative National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), Qatar Museums (QM) is planning to incorporate more technology in its upcoming exhibitions to make them more interactive, said an...
Augmented Reality technology is the best way to improve the tactics in receiving and delivering of information. Augmented Reality generates new revenue streams or improves tedious solutions in the context of the Media and Publishing. This technology addresses...
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.
Empuries, Neapolis, Costa Brava, Grecoroman city with story telling and 3D reconstruction of Roman Home, virtual semi immersive experience in the archaeological site, within an ancient underground space.
Palaeontologists have been urged to share 3D scans of fossils online, but a Nature analysis finds that few researchers do so.A decade ago, palaeontologist Jack Tseng set out on a treasure hunt. Not the typical boots and pick-axe affair you might imagine, but one that...
VR is having an impact across many sectors, this article unpacks these and gives you 7 key used of VR
Image Source: Tumisu on Pixabay Virtual Reality is a powerful and intimate technology. Because of this, considerations must be made by developers to mitigate any abuse or bullying inside VR platforms. In a VR world, the experience of embodying your avatar is much more...
Impact of changing perspective in domestic violence through VR The role of empathy and perspective-taking in preventing aggressive behaviors has been highlighted in several theoretical models. In this study, we used immersive virtual reality to induce a full body...
The mobile app industry is brewing at a speed faster than ever before. As a result, every business is coming up with its own customized app to retain mobile customers. Irrespective of the size and type, apps are running efficiently with suitable performance, according to the users need.
Image credits: © European Union/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie (CC BY-ND 2.0) Not my future? If egocentric people care little about the long-term consequences of global warming, it's because their brains don't represent the distant future, according to the results of an...
WHAT ARE THE BEST AR SMARTGLASSES? Augmented reality is believed to have the biggest potential for mass consumption. AR has the backing of investment of huge tech giants, who are investing not only in the hardware but also working with developers to create...
The use of virtual reality as a training purpose is getting renounced in every sector.
Algorithm Endel 'signed' a major label contract. Is Artificial Intelligence the future of music? The app Endel, developed by a Berlin based team of artists, developers and scientists, creates automatically music that fits our mood, but unlike its human counterparts it...
By Sarah CasconeAs institutions in the Netherlands ramp up celebrations to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), the Mauritshuis in The Hague has released a new augmented reality app that lets viewers step inside one of the...
By Jane L. LevereWalk through the doors of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City these days and it’s possible to travel back more than 100 years.Visitors can walk up to the original front doors no longer easily visible from outside the museum on East 36th...
By Niall Patrick WalshThe Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group has concluded the design phase of Project Correl, a collaborative experiment to test the potential of virtual reality as a tool for design. The results of the experiment are currently on display in the...
AR/VR solutions are helpful in terms of customer prospect.Industries from finance & retail to travel & fashion are using these advance technologies in the current market.Thus, AR/VR is helping the businesses to broadcast their brands and services.
By Lizzie CrookThe Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin'an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's studio, which is yet to open to the public.The Bartlett's virtual reality (VR) film allows viewers to explore the...
By John PlummerThe Royal Air Force Museum has used virtual reality technology to enable visitors to experience being on board a Lancaster bomber during the Dambusters raid of 1943.The museum worked with the creative technology company All Seeing Eye to create the...
By Adele PetersIn a parking lot southwest of Atlanta, a new museum brings visitors into conversation with the systemic issues of homelessness—a growing concern in the U.S., and one that’s not often understood. “We wanted to create a space where the voices of...
Image credit: Monika Ritterhaus, tanzhaus nrw Here comes another example of humanoid robotics: Alter 3. Jointly developed by laboratories studying artificial life at Osaka University and the University of Tokyo, Alter is powered by a neural network. Uniquely, the...
Image credits: Seer, Emotions © Takayuki Todo Live, love, party, and work with robots from March 15 to March 17, 2019, the META MARATHON 2019 was dedicated to the subject of robotics. Not only could visitors participate in workshops, talks, and performances, they...
The Chronos Group known for the release of new Web, Mobile and Desktop 3D Standards has released a new Standard for AR/VR, the Open XR Standard. From the Chronos Website: “OpenXR seeks to simplify AR/VR software development, enabling applications to reach a wider...
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Everyone knows the mega-predator, tyrannosaurus rex, but do you know how they lived? or that t. rex hatchlings were fluffy, and more like turkeys than the killing machines they grew up to be? or that they had the rare ability to pulverize and digest bones? Opening on...
Image credits: Yuichi Shiraishi - https://flic.kr/p/pEZoi The result is a virtual concert in two parts: an immersive recording of Meredith's composition performed by the BBC Orchestra on the first night of the Proms, and a short, deeply moving first-person experience...
VR as impressive it may be will remain a limited market niche, as long as it is limited to a single human-machine relation. Collaborative and interactive relations between humans sharing the same VR environment is a a requirement that has so far only been solved...
AR brings an educational twist to conventional storytelling.
Through VR, sections of Up the River During Qingming are brought to life—from bustling scenes featuring some of the painting’s 4,000 figures, to architectural details including homes and the royal palace.
Weightless Bricks, an interactive, mixed reality experience at Royal Academy of Arts as part of Invisible Landscapes: Imagination (Act III). On view at the Architecture Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, February 2–April 1, 2019
The virtual exhibition, developed by VRTech Group, celebrated Goncharova and Malevich’s enduring legacy, while providing insight into the creation of their greatest works.
While it’s hard to beat the experience of seeing a seminal piece of fine art or important historical artifact with your own two eyes, one could easily spend a lifetime traveling the world in search of all of them. Fortunately, the digital age has made it...
Image information: The National Museum of Korea offers an application for viewers to have a enjoyable museum viewing Exhibit contents using augmented reality (AR), experiential animation, video, etc. The Korean government has been paying keen attention to the VR...
Museums around the world are celebrating International Museum Day, and in China, museums are seeing a surge in popularity. In 2008, the country started offering free admission at more of its museums, leading to a huge jump in attendance at some facilities.With the...
By MEG O'CONNORWalk down NW Third Avenue and 25th Street in Wynwood and you'll be greeted by an alligator, a coyote, a manatee, and more than a dozen other examples of Florida's dwindling biodiversity. The colorful wildlife makes up one of the scores of new murals...
By Adam WilliamsFollowing an architecture competition, Turkey's Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) has been selected to create the new Robot Science Museum (RSM) in Seoul, South Korea. Interestingly, the firm says that the building will be part-constructed using...
By Michel'le DonnellyLast night saw Team Mobi take to the stage and pitch at the NSW Business Chamber Networking Night held at the Westin in Sydney.The event is famous for its high energy ’60 Second Spotlight’ which proves both an efficient way to get business chamber...
By Allison MeierTamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change.Visitors to the Whitney Museum of American Art can now glimpse a dire future when New York is underwater. Up on the sixth floor terrace,...