A web-based 3D GIS for archaeological research
The MayaArch3D Project has built a virtual research environment for the documentation and analysis of complex archaeological sites —specifically, it is a web-based, 3D-GIS that can integrate 3D models of cities, landscapes, and objects with associated, geo-referenced archaeological data.

Robben Island has a rich history with islands historical sites presented in virtual reality.

Extraordinary stories in virtual reality.

Microsoft Hololens for cultural heritage.

Following the 50th anniversary of the 1967 sovereignty referendum, Gibraltar ensures its cultural heritage is digitally preserved forever

Intimate narratives of everyday experience of 19th and 20th century Londoners through the smellscape.

The aim of the project is to use the dataset as a tool to explore and interpret the lives and health of the 19th and 20th century Londoners. During the second phase how smells are linked to health and the socio-economic identity of London streets will be investigated.

battle of ARKit and ARCore for next generation of mobile AR cultural heritage applications has begun.

The Jewish Monument is a living archive which invites family members, friends, historians, editors and visitors to share and document their memories and stories.

360º of Gaudinian concepts to find out about.

Classical Greece brings forth reveries of temples, sanctuaries, and sculptures in their distinctly white marble facades. This notion perhaps has to do with the numerous extant ancient Greek specimens of structures (like the famed Parthenon), along with statues preserved in their ‘achromic’ forms in various museums around the globe. But when it comes to historicity, it was probably the opposite that was true. In essence, most tangible artworks and architectural feats (including the Parthenon) of ancient Greece probably showcased their kaleidoscopic flair with brightly painted facades.

Surf Coast Shire and Deakin University are collaborating to offer an opportunity for a three year PhD research project to be undertaken. Immersive reality technologies, including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, have advanced significantly in recent years and the core focus of the research will be to explore the use of these technologies and its role to enhance the visitor experience in the Surf Coast Shire.

In Virtual Reality one of the key concepts is Presence. Much theoretical research has been done around the immersion that the virtual environments can produce, and usually focus the attention in perceptual issues. But different approaches are emerging in the last months. For instance, Dustin Chertoff has published a new, more holistic theory about presence that analyses cognition and emotion too.

Art virtually anywhere. Bringing the arts to life through innovative VR technology.

Domus Aurea’s archaeological restoration site reopen enhanced by a new and innovative multimedia experience aimed to improve the scientific value of the site, focusing on new technologies as immersive virtual reality and video narration (the latest technologies as Video Mapping and Virtual Reality).

[envira-gallery id="27817"] The city of vienna has launched a exhibition about the past and the future of two large districts. A 3 x 3meter scale model of this part of vienna was printed and set up for a large scale projection. The projections content can be navigated...

FIRST POWER PLANT IN EUROPE TO USE VIRTUAL REALITY Immerse yourself in the virtual world of the power plant! Early 2017 one of the oldest water driven power plant in austria updated their visitors tours with an augmented reality application which lets you see behind...

Sony have just given their first public preview of two upcoming Xperia models at a Berlin consumer electronics show. The phones are the first to come loaded with an incredible 3D scanning app and both feature native export to Sketchfab. 3D scanning has never been easier.

Exploring the Trends, Priorities and Challenges of building the NGI Ecosystem. NGI Event held in Barcelona, 13/09/2017

The “World as Support” paradigm for Augmented and Mixed Reality experiences provides a strong potential that the typical “Window in the World” paradigm does not provide, and can be especially useful in Virtual Heritage applications.

The Commission has launched a call to support user-oriented projects for Europeana with one or both of the following objectives: to provide tools for end users to highlight, share or enrich material accessible through Europeana, such as tools to list personal...

Mapping on a white physical model as a storytelling tool for the Cardona Castle museum.

A new reputation study comparing 18 of the most famous art museums in the world shows European institutions emerge on top worldwide, with many scoring higher than the world’s most reputed businesses.

Viar360 is the most intuitive end-to-end solution for 360 VR creation and distribution: drag-and-drop creation, cross-platform distribution, insightful analytics, more: http://www.viar360.com/

4D Printing Market Size, Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook (U.S., Canada, Germany, UK, Italy, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, China, India, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE), Application Development Potential, Price Trends, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2017 – 2024

I have always believed that brining 3D to consumers could only work without the need for dedicated depth sensors. This pure-software approach is already being embraced for Augmented Reality with Apple’s upcoming ARKit and Google’s ARCore which was announced last week. Both can give modern smartphones AR-capabilities by just using the regular camera(s), instead of using dedicated sensors like Tango.

Digitisation of Cypriot archaeology in University of St Andrews.

Zoom in on ‘The Tower of Babel’, Bruegel the Elder, Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen. There are so many intricate details in Bruegel’s work you have the feeling you can zoom in indefinitely: https://goo.gl/hRBjff

Meet Vincent Van Gogh: The one and only official traveling Van Gogh experience using innovative presentation techniques and tools.

Today Google announced the availability of the ARCore Software Development Kit (SDK) preview, enabling a native android  implementation of augmented reality contents . (excerpt from the google vr website) With more than two billion active devices, Android is the...

Today we finished our archaoelogical excavations in the site "Turó de Baltarga" (Cerdanya region, Pyrenees, Catalonia). Great results, and great team!!!!

Barn 2 b: the unwanted ghost – isThis writing is about a large vernacular barn, located in the highlands of northeast Lithuania (Aukštaitija). The barn is somewhat ordinary depending with whom you speak to. It had been part of a family homestead for several...

The ViMM project and WG2.2 will be presented (by Kaja Antlej) at a one day conference about Australia’s international collaborations at RMIT University’s EU Centre in Melbourne

A Cost-effective Alternative to Airborne and Terrestrial Modalities

Interesting insights about what children think about VR (360-degree), 3D scanned and 3D printed heritage content! By the #didiRDG team at the Museum of English Rural Life and Reading...

National Gallery: George Stubbs, 1724, ‘Whistlejacket’ presented live on FB by NG Deputy Director Susan Foister

This Augmented Reality Indigital Storytelling app has been developed by Mikaela Jade's start-up in remote Australia. "Her app, Indigital Storytelling, uses augmented reality (the same technology that enables Snapchat and Pokemon Go) to tell the ancient stories of...

Dr. Markus Hilgert, Director of Vorderasiatisches Museum im Pergamonmuseum (Museum of the Ancient Near East), talks about their support for the #Unite4Heritage movement, the role of museums and actions to raise public awareness of heritage protection.

Augmented reality in education will soon revolt learning as we know it. AR will fully change location and timing of study process and open additional ways and methods. Finally, AR capabilities may make classes more transformational and engaging.

Hybrid cloud is the future, so it’s best to know which vendor will be right for your business.

Far from placing us as experts on the subject, our aim here is to generate discussions and new ideas in order to help cultural institutions becoming more familiar with these subjects and gaining inspiration for their own projects.

Smartphone technology used to bring to life story of woman who donated carving to Indian Buddhist shrine 2,000 years ago

On 14 August 2017, in a world-first Facebook Live relay, the paintings were united virtually in a unique collaboration between the museums.

Getting started with a Chatbot
Facebook first announced that they were opening up their messenger Platform in April 2016, but it’s relatively recently that services have appeared to make it possible to create Chatbots at little expense without programming knowledge.

Architecture is a precious thing; delicate and worth preserving. Whether by the slow slip into decrepitude or wanton destruction at the hands of terror, our heritage is at risk.

Avegant thinks light field displays will replace our smartphones

Virtual reconstructions in transnational research environments – the web portal “Palaces and Parks in former East Prussia”, funded by the Leibniz Association (07/2013 – 06/2016)

After several months of preparations, Art Graphique & Patrimoine has inaugurated an important collaboration with the Directorate-General of Antiquities & Museums

Panhellenic, Conference, Digitization, Cultural Heritage, Volos, Greece, Culture, Science, Research, Technology

The Time Machine Flagship | Mapping 2000 years of European History.

Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city’s golden age.

This is a guest post by Elizabeth England, a resident in the National Digital Stewardship Residency program.

Europeana Task Force Group Survey on Advanced documentation of 3D Digital Assets. Please help us to receive the opinion of all the experts in this specific area.

The Pergamon Altar is a monumental construction built in the first half of the 2nd century BC

The European Commission has today put forward new rules to clamp down on the illegal import and trafficking of cultural goods from outside the EU, often linked to terrorist financing and other criminal activity.

The building made from 100,000 banned books

While plenty of innovation happens in museums and galleries, there is also an incredible ecosystem of innovative startups working alongside the cultural sector.

If museums face an uncertain future, you wouldn’t know it from “Henri Matisse: The Cutouts,” which recently drew 664,000 to the Museum of Modern Art.

Google’s latest project may be the most widely accessible and comprehensive fashion collection on the planet. All you need to view it is an internet connection.

A new exhibit at Canada’s largest art gallery is pulling classic paintings from their canvases into three-dimensional space

Das “Zentrum für Digitale Kulturgüter in Museen” (ZEDIKUM) an den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz ist eine zentrale, interdisziplinäre Forschungs-, Infrastruktur-, und Serviceeinrichtung im Bereich der Digital Humanities für die archäologischen Sammlungen auf der Museumsinsel Berlin (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Antikensammlung, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Museum für Vor-und Frühgeschichte, Vorderasiatisches Museum).

Queen’s House is the first museum in the UK to use Google’s breakthrough augmented reality technology Tango and through hand held devices has created Spirited: A digital adventure. Here Advisor speaks with Dr Fabrice Jouvenot, Royal Museums Greenwich who will be giving a talk tomorrow (May 18) at the Museum’s + Heritage Show on this new way to engage visitors ahead of its official launch next month

White bastion fortress has been standing in defence of Sarajevo since medieval period. In time it was changing together with various dominations upon the city. 4D virtual presentation aims to display the historical development of this cultural heritage object through digital storytelling combined with interactive 3D models of the Bastion in different time periods. These models contain digitized findings from the site and their 3D reconstructions. In this project we defined and implemented a new method of interactive digital storytelling for cultural heritage. The goal of the project is to support archaeological research of the site and raise awareness of general public about this important cultural monument.

This third Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality conference invites participants to explore aspects of preservation, (re-)presentation, promotion and profit https://heritagetourismhospitality.org/conference/hthic2017/

VR will be big, AR will be bigger and take longer.” What sounded revolutionary when we first said it two years ago has become accepted wisdom.

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ITN-DCH Final Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage held at Olimje, Slovenia for 5 days, where several VIMM Working Groups meetings took place covering the wide thematic areas of the project as well as its partners discussed the next steps that need to be taken....

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Kick-off workshop for “Thematic Area 5: Demand” took place at the Department of ETIC of UPF in Barcelona and was a great success