As Saudi Arabia prepares to host the G20 summit, the kingdom's culture minister argues that culture should be part of the agenda Coronavirus (Covid-19) has shone a spotlight on the need for policymakers to bring the cultural economy—a thriving sector of the global...
We are excited to launch an upcoming series of webinars to support professionals in using the Europeana Impact playbook, supporting you to better plan, measure and understand the impact that digital cultural heritage creates. “We believe that we are all better off if...
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.
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...
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,...
BY CHARLOTTE COATESMost museums regularly welcome field trips through their doors, but unfortunately not every school is able to visit a museum in person.Could virtual reality offer a way to remove barriers, and allow children in classes at the other side of the...
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...
On May 1st (labour day) VIMM signed a joint statement with Europa Nostra in Brussels. Highlighting the role of digital technologies in the future of cultural heritage in the context of the Berlin Call to Action. The agreement has been signed by the Secretary General...
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...
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