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.
Mash it, move it, improve it! – Upcoming Cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci Süd
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...
Update on Hackathon Coding Da Vinci: Award ceremony in the Landesmuseum Mainz
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...
RheijnLand.Xperiences – Interactive Storytelling across Organisational and National Borders
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...
New PhD Position at the Unesco Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage – Cyprus University of Technology
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...
CARNIVAL – INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS
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...
Trickeye 3D Museum in Seoul
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.
Recycle Group: Nature of Non – Existence
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, National Theatre, Accenture, Epson
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.
Notable Women, by former Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, Google Creative Lab, and Nexus Studio
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.
Augmented Reality vs. classical painting: the works of Dražen Turković
In these artworks, the viewer enters into the added reality created by the painter, that empowers the static picture with realistic dynamic details.
Snapchat Virtually Restores London’s Big Ben with Location-Based AR Lens
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.
How Augmented Reality Is Enhancing the Museum Visitor Experience
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...
How This Asian-American Chef Uses Food and VR to Tell Her Immigrant Story
“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...
People’s Palace goes on ‘virtual reality’ journey to Amazon’s Xingu people with Horniman Museum installation
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...
UCF Partners with Carnegie Museum on Augmented Reality App That Brings Gardens to Life
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...
Enjoy The Paintings Of Vermeer Through Google’s AR Pocket Gallery
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....
Virtual Reality explores sunken shipwrecks at the RZGM, Mainz
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...
Top 10 Virtual Reality Companies in 2019
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 IN 2019 – WHAT IS THE FUTURE?
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...
The VR Glossary, Terminology and Definitions
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...
ARS Electronica Center, Deep Space LIVE: The Star of Bethlehem
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....
VR at Beijing’s Palace Museum
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 – History, Applications, Technology and Future
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...
Effects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality on Visitor Experiences in Museum
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...
Hand tracking built directly into the headset.
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...
University Of Warwick Study Finds VR Is More Engaging Than Traditional Learning Methods
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...
Varjo VR, a new reality
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...
Virtual reality helping children fight fear of medical treatment
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...
Frontier Research in ICT – From Robotic Companions to Third Thumbs, machines can change the human brain
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...
VR Games that improve Kid’s social Skills
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...
AR technology will contribute to safe Arctic ship navigation
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...
Google opens virtual version of fire-ravaged Brazil museum
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...
‘Digital museum’ brings millions of fossils out of the dark
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...
Gamification and Serious Gaming at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
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...
European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage released
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...
As sales slide, virtual reality fans look to a bright, untethered future
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...
A comprehensive interview with Dr. Marinos Ioannides ath the latest edition of Issues
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 apps: bringing the museum into the palms of visitors’ hands
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.
Digital Museum Guides: enhancing modern-day visits with audio guides, apps and AR
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.
“Rome Reborn”
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.
Disney’s PoseVR Tool Lets Animators Create In VR
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’ Arrives On Oculus Go & Gear VR
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.
Best Innovation Award at the Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage
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...
2020 World Monuments Watch | Nominations Now Open
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...
What’s Your Museum Avatar? Europe Launches First EU-China Virtual Reality Cultural Tourism Fair
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...
Jatayu sculpture: A myth comes alive
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...
‘David Bowie Is’ Exhibition Will Become Augmented Reality App
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,...
Microsoft’s HoloLens Morphs Paris Museum Model of Mont-Saint-Michel into Masterpiece of AR
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...
Historical Storytelling through Augmented Reality
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...
Symposium Aims to Answer: What is a Museum in the 21st Century?
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...
Using VR/AR technology, museums can make falling visitor numbers a thing of the past
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...
Collaborative scenarios in multi-user VR Museums
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...
THE OCÉARIUM DU CROISIC-BRITTANY’S AQUARIUM A VIRTUAL SENSORY EXPERIENCE ….
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 Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage
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...
Fair of European Innovators in cultural heritage presentations
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...
The Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage
#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 ...
Europe for Culture Conference in Brussels
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...
Inside Bruegel: research project offers visitors the chance to conduct their own studies
It happens as 2019 sees the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30 – 1569). On the occasion of this anniversary, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is dedicating the world's first major monographic exhibition to this most important...
PERGAMON. Masterpieces of the ancient metropolis with a 360° panorama by Yadegar Asisi
PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi © Yadegar Asisi The unique collaboration of the Antikensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany) with the artist Yadegar Asisi from 2011/2012 will now be continued:...
Virtual reality in aviation
Virtual reality in the aviation training process offers a lot of opportunities. VR in aviation helps to save money and time.
The Biography of a Rock Legend in Virtual Reality
In 2018 ‘PANIK CITY’ the German rock legend Udo Lindenberg's innovative technology, art and culture project opened in the heart of Hamburg's Reeperbahn. A special feature of ‘Panik City’ is Virtual Reality. With wireless VR glasses, the audiences experience the...
Immerse into the Habitat ‘Soil’: Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz (Germany) provides VR experience for its audiences
Copyright Photo: Senckenberg-Museum/Hapto The Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz allows visitors to experience inaccessible living spaces in a way that would not have been possible before. Virtually shrunk to the size of an insect, visitors penetrate the forest...
Learner drivers could go on Virtual Reality courses to reduce the number of fatal accidents and crashes
Simulators or headsets could be part of the learners’ training to help them ‘develop their hazard perception skills’
Vote for us- The Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage
Thank you for visiting us! It was a great event and networking with so many experts around the world. Vote for us at For Best Innovator exhibited in the Fair click here For Best Booth exhibiting at the Fair click here Dear colleagues, Organized by the European...
Studies show potential of virtual reality to reduce children’s anxiety, pain
Innovative virtual reality technologies hold promise in reducing children’s anxiety and pain before and after medical procedures and surgery, suggest two new studies.
The Future Of Virtual Reality Is Wireless
In recent months we’ve been talking about some new definitions and marketing terms that are coming into more popular use — “wireless” and “standalone” VR. While we’ve seen hints of it in 2018, next year is when the technology will really take off.Before I get into why...
French Startup Uses Drones and 3D Images to Reconstruct War-torn Heritage Sites
A French startup is using drones and 3D technology to create digital reconstructions of cultural heritage sites destroyed by conflict in the Middle East.Technicians at Iconem, a Paris-based startup, use drones and digital cameras to take hundreds of thousands of...
Google powers Indian Railways’ cultural heritage virtual tour
In operation for over 160 years, Indian Railways boasts of a rich rail heritage and legacy. It traverses the length and breadth of the vast country through scenic routes, heritage stretches and villages.In a recent initiative to showcase its cultural heritage,...
Virtual reality: Tour the AMAZING First World War memorial that was never built
In 1918 the British government commissioned a selection of artworks to populate an ambitious Hall of Remembrance. The idea was to create a bespoke gallery of commemoration and remembrance, but the project was abandoned. However several works of art were commissioned...
Brussels exhibition brings Van Gogh to virtual reality
Brussels Stock Exchange in Brussels, Belgium, is set to host a Van Gogh exhibition that will bring the painter’s works to life on the walls through virtual reality technology until Jan. 6. The exhibition is based on extensive research by the Van Gogh Museum into the...
Mammoth Resurrected Using Augmented Reality at the Florida Museum of Natural History
The Florida Museum of Natural History, home to a magnificent Columbian Mammoth skeleton, has launched a custom-developed AR experience created by INDE to bring the giant extinct creature to life again.INDE’s unique form of “digital resurrection” using Augmented...
Perot Museum leaders, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unveil Dinaledi virtual reality app
Free virtual reality experience explores a South African cave where some of history’s most famous ancient human fossils were discovered; app provides global access to researchers, students and amateur explorers to a place few have visited
DINOSAURS “RESURRECTED” AT MAYBORN MUSEUM USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY
INDE’s large-screen “Back to the Jurassic” AR experience – launched at the Mayborn Museum’s Jeanes Discovery Center in Waco, TX – will be immersing visitors in the world of dinosaurs. BroadcstAR is a next-generation edutainment platform deployed in more than 200...
Virtual tour: Classic Week at Christie’s New York
As part of Classic Week at Christie’s New York, discover an Assyrian gypsum relief, a Roman marble torso of Hercules, plus works by Hammershøi, Régnier, Courbet and more as the galleries at Rockefeller Center become a museum of classical art. We invite you to take our...
YouTube VR Creator Lab Heads To Tokyo
YouTube has set their sights on yet another location for their VR production course, this time bringing their support to the talented creators of Tokyo, Japan.
Artist Behind Famous Obama “Hope” Poster Launches VR/AR Exhibit
Shepard Fairey’s largest ever solo exhibit preserved in VR/AR using volumetric photogrammetry.
Hand & Finger Tracking Coming Soon to the HTC Vive Pro
HTC reveals native hand/finger tracking for Vive Pro alongside 6DoF functionality for Vive Focus.
Spatial’s Collaborative AR Platform
Spatial, a team of 3D Design and AR/VR experts based out of New York and San Francisco, today unveiled their cross-reality collaboration platform.
EUROMED 2018
We are waiting for 394 registered participants to attend this unique event. Everything is ready for the 7th Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Digital Heritage. In total 501 papers from 62 countries of the world were submitted for the International EuroMed Conferences...
Former VR film company Jaunt is giving up on VR to focus on augmented reality
Virtual reality video company Jaunt — which helped spur the early growth of VR video — is shifting its focus to augmented reality, winding down “a number” of its VR-related services, and laying off a “significant portion” of its staff.
ViMM in Legatum 2.0. Ciudad Real Spain
The UPF - ViMM team has submitted a paper in the conference LEGATUM 2.0. on the valorisation of Cultural heritage as following: Digital Multimodal Museums: Design, management, structured process of decision making. IMprove the social impact, sustainability, and face...
ViMM in LEGATUM 2.0
ViMM presentation , decision making process and regional studies in LEGATUM 2.0. / Ciudad Real SPAIN
Galt Museum goes digital with online database
It’s a winning combination: Archival items covering more than 100 years, and the latest in digital access. That’s the story at the Galt Museum and Archives, home to more than 20,000 historic objects and more than 900,000 archival documents and photos. And now, they’ve...
LA’s Getty Center Blends Oculus-Ready VR With Ancient Chinese Art In Virtual Reality Museum Exhibit
Plenty of young people go to museums. But too many of them come involuntarily as part of school trips, and their body language often shows it. They’d much rather be at home playing video games.But what if there’s a way to do both? The Getty Center, an art museum on a...
Perot Museum leaders, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unveil Dinaledi virtual reality app
Ever wondered what it's like to delve deep within a South African cave to discover and recover some of the most famous ancient human fossils in scientific history? The opportunity is now at your fingertips - and it's free via the Apple App Store and Google...
Why Museums Need to Digitize Fossils to Understand Past Mysteries
Lost treasures are waiting to be found.
Seamless dome planetarium selects Digital Projection
North America’s first seamless dome planetarium, located at Minnesota’s Bell Museum, is reaping overall cost savings with a Digital Projection Insight Dual Laser 4K projector.
Inside Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Fireflies’ infinity room at the Phoenix Art Museum
PHOENIX - Yayoi Kusama’s "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies" has been a staple at the Phoenix Art Museum for more than a decade.It opened on Oct. 6, 2005.Nearly 200 strands of lights of varying lengths are suspended from the ceiling...
Seamless dome planetarium selects Digital Projection
A Digital Projection Insight Dual Laser 4K projector has been installed in North America’s first seamless dome planetarium. The Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium opened this summer, located in Minnesota’s Bell Museum following its $79 million renovation. The...
Inspired by the Baltics – What do OpenGLAM and public domain heritage mean for the future of museums?
Following a trip to visit libraries in Latvia and Lithuania, blogger Marlene Hofmann gives us her insights into the future of the museum in a digital world.
OMAF – First international Standard for VR Streaming
Image source: Fraunhofer - HHI Virtual worlds are in high demand, whether in computer games or even in planning processes in the industry, as well as in streaming video services. The delivery and storage standard OMAF, developed by the MPEG Group, will ensure in the...
GATEWAY TO INFINITY – Germany’s first immersive Movie
Fraunhofer HHI and UFA presented Germany’s first volumetric film test production at NAB in Las Vegas The “3D Human Body Reconstruction (3DHBR)” technology of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI is being used for the first time in cooperation with UFA GmbH in...
London Transport Museum’s Sam Mullins on reaching tomorrow’s engineers today
As the London Transport Museum launches its new Future Engineers gallery, Sam Mullins, the museum’s managing director reflects on the role modern museums can play in inspiring the next generation of engineers.
Virtual Reality in Education
A few years ago, virtual reality was talked about in the future tense, since the high cost of technology did not allow using its capabilities to the full. And although the first device capable of creating a completely virtual reality, appeared as early as the 60s of...
Gustav Klimt’s Masterpieces Get a 21st-Century Makeover at Paris’s First Digital Fine Arts Museum
Paris' first digital art museum is taking the paintings of Gustav Klimt out of their frames (so to speak) and projecting them onto the walls in its inaugural exhibit. The museum, called the Atelier des Lumières, moved into a warehouse-like former foundry building in...
The Museum of Jerusalem will show the Old City in a virtual format
The tower of David Museum, which is located in the ancient fortress of the Old Town, this month will allow visitors to explore the old Jerusalem in a virtual format. A virtual program called “Step into history” will allow Museum visitors to “walk through the streets...
Bringing culture back to the people: Transcribathon Italia
We talk to Sara Di Giorgio about the importance of digitising cultural heritage as she organises Italy’s first transcribathon as a means of connecting people with their own heritage.
Virtual Reality Museum Tours Could Be Coming To Texas Classrooms
Coming to a museum near you…virtual reality tours. Boston-based HistoryView.org is partnering with the Texas-based Metroplex360 to create 3D tours of museums, art galleries, historic sites and more.Brian Lyra and Elizabeth Benoit, the co-founders of HistoryView.org,...
Digitizing Cultural Heritage in the Municipality of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Digitizing Cultural Heritage in the Municipality of Plovdiv. The European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21st century (Council of Europe) – Good practices
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