Virtual reality has always faced barriers that prevented it from going mainstream. Oculus is quite aware of that. The price of a VR machine paired with a powerful PC was a financial obstacle. The company solved that issue by creating the Oculus Go, a $269 headset....
The heritage industry is an inherently conservative business, trading as it does in the past, and as such it can be wary of change, and relatively slow to innovate. However, faced with a new generation of visitors who've grown up using smartphones, computers and...
You can now step into new worlds like never before with Cybershoes®, a VR accessory that is worn on your feet and allows you to literally walk and run through virtual reality. Your room is small, but the world of VR is endless and you want to enjoy and explore it....
[Updated] A new art exhibition that explores the burgeoning technologies of virtual and augmented reality as media for creativity and expression opens this weekend in Pasadena. “Spacial Reality” at the sp[a]ce gallery at Ayzenberg, 39 E. Walnut Street, features more...
Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to go into space, stood in the center of the room and prepared to become digital. Around her, 106 cameras captured her image in 3-D, which would later render her as a life-sized hologram when viewed through a HoloLens...
Soon passengers will be able to pretend they are on a beach instead of on a plane
Walmart announced last week that they will use virtual reality technology for employee training at every Walmart store in America.
Derek Belch told CNBC on Wednesday that he hopes the technology will trickle down to the consumer.
The latest news about the activities during the #EYCH2018 from the European Commisionis...
The acceleration of technology and the solitary nature of VR are a problem, but the rewards are great
Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) explores innovative means to provide interaction with digital and physical artefacts in various contexts, including Cultural Heritage Institutions.The Virtual 3D...
The Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Programme at the Institute for Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology (ICS-FORTH) is a long-term horizontal interdisciplinary RTD Programme aiming to develop and apply pioneering human-centric AmI technologies and...
Budget increases have been proposed by the rapporteurs for the CULT Committee in two programmes; Digital Europe and Horizon Europe.
Virtual reality arcade The Void is partnering with Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic’s immersive entertainment wing ILMxLAB to develop a new slate of experiences
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has come up with an amazing new use for SoftBank’s beloved Pepper. Some art institutions get so wrapped up in preserving the past that they fail to properly engage the future. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is not one of...
Kirill Pivovarov discusses how museums and retail stores are influencing each other to create a better visitor experience. Special thanks to Paul Conder for contributing his retail insights.
Visitors will be able to ‘walk the streets’ of the city at the time of King Herod in the first century BCE
UPF / ViMM had two presentations accepted, out of the results of the project in the European Association of Archaeologists Conference 2018, where more than 1000 professionals of all over Europe participated (Barcelona 5-8 September 2018) The 4 stages decision...
In Confidence: Holocaust History Told By Those Who Lived It is a new, multimedia installation that encourages visitors to engage with personal expressions of Holocaust experience. Correspondence, possessions, photographs, artworks, journals, testimonies—history has confided these to us. Through each we can listen, reflect, and respond.
Pulse Studio was asked by Chicago Scenic Studios (CSSI) to present some of their latest digital activations at the Communicating the Museum 21 (CTM) event.
We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one VR gaming system. Oculus Quest will launch in Spring 2019 for $399 USD. Offering six degrees of freedom and Touch controllers, Oculus Quest makes it easy to...
The sunken ruins of ancient cities, the monuments of lost civilisations, may reappear before our eyes thanks to new technologies of augmented reality. Euronews' Denis Loctier went to Italy for Futuris to investigate a remarkable new tool under development.Two thousand...
To get their visitors immersed in the legacies of Emilio Aguinaldo and Andres Bonifacio, the Ayala Museum launched on Monday a virtual reality (VR) treatment of their individual stories of heroism.Ayala Museum director Mariles Gustilo said the event is an expansion of...
Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares some characteristics with Disneyland—a costumed guide, manufactured fantasy landscapes, giddy kids—but there are no rides. In Candytopia, there’s very little to do but pose, and...
In a new trailer for Ace Combat 7, we get to see the game’s virtual reality mode in action and it looks very good indeed. While I am not really a big fan of virtual reality or VR in video games, there are a few exceptions where I think it can work. In short, any kind...
An art exhibition in Jerusalem that gives Israelis the chance to experience a Palestinian family’s living room – by wearing virtual reality goggles – has laid bare the entrenched separation of two societies that live side by side but, increasingly, worlds apart.The...
The RESCULT project Consortium (Increasing Resilience of Cultural heritage: a supporting decision tool for the safeguarding of cultural assets, www.rescult-project.eu ) is pleased to invite you to the project Final Conference which will take place inside the European...
On Friday evening, Portugal’s M&A Digital was awarded for the Heritage in Motion ‘Best Achievement Award’ for their project ‘The Roman heritage: PO.RO.S – Museu Portugal Romano em Sicó’ 2 other category winners were also announced during the annual conference of the...
An Intel Falcon 8+ drone was used to carry out an aerial inspection and survey of Hwahongmun Gate of Korea’s Suwon Hwaseong fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an important part of Korea’s culture and history. A 3D model of Hwahongmun Gate was generated using...
The H2020 ViMM Project is actively involved with a paper presentation in the 12th MTSR Conference. The conference will take place from 23-26 October in Limassol, Cyprus. For more information regarding the conference visit the official website of the conference....
Coinciding with the European Heritage Days celebrations, UNESCO will launch the first-ever web platform dedicated to World Heritage and sustainable travel. Supported by the European Union, the platform features 34 selected World Heritage sites spread across 19 European Union countries, and it has been developed in collaboration with National Geographic
The new summary of the Manifesto is available here. Dear Colleague, We would like to extend our warm thanks to the many members of the DCH community who commented so positively and contributed so constructively, having read the first version of the ViMM Manifesto. We...
Storytelling, presence and gamification are three basic fields that need to be taken into account when developing novel mixed reality applications for cultural heritage, based on the recent renaissance of commercial VR and AR hardware. In this survey paper, the role...
Martha Vassiliadi1, Stella Sylaiou2,3 and George Papagiannakis4*1Department of Philology, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece2Department of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,...
The new Selfies app lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of gorgeous cosmic locations.
A recent boom in augmented reality (AR) technology is leading educational institutions to explore new ways of teaching, where virtual scenes are mixed with real-life locations and objects. However, more research is needed in order to understand when and how AR can be...
Paige Dansinger, the founding director of Better World Museum in downtown Minneapolis, draws on “Tilt Brush,” a program on the Oculus Rift in the virtual reality studio on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The Better World Museum is open to the public, where viewers can use the virtual reality studio, a collaborative space that Dansinger says people from all over the world have used.
The German federal state Hessen is investing almost 3 million Euros in the digitisation of culture in the financial years 2018 and 2019 to make Hessen's national cultural institutions more accessible to visitors and to present them in a modern way. Among the 26...
We live in an age when you can virtually “visit” the Louvre in Paris to see the Mona Lisa or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to gaze at the Egyptian Temple of Dendur — all from your phone or desktop. So do museums still matter? Are they worth actually...
THE TWO SPACIAL DIMENSIONS OF VIRTUAL TOURS Virtual reality and guided walking tours. What do these things have in common? We think that they have a lot. You will move in real space and you will experience and move in the virtual space as well. And right there, where...
My Didimo let’s you create virtual 3D characters (avatars) from a single photo taken with a mobile phone. In just 2 minutes you have a lifelike avatar that can speak, move and represent you in a 3D world. The technology can be used in movies, video games, but also in...
The "Tree by Naked" restaurant was launched in July 2017. Located not far from Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, the restaurant combines culinary, artistic, and virtual reality (VR) elements. The restaurant offers Japanese and Western fusion cuisine and diners feel the sensation...
VR will offer visitors the chance to actually see how ancient cities looked hundreds of years ago, thanks to virtual reality tours based on architectural reconstructions done by professional archaeologists. The ToD Innovation Lab in the Tower of David Museum in...
The New York Transit Museum is the largest museum in the United States with a focus on the cultural, social and technological history of urban public transport.
The Europeana initiative has brought significant added value in supporting Europe’s digital cultural heritage but can still do more in terms of scope, focus and usability, according to a report adopted on 6 September by the European Commission.
Proud to take part at EAA European Association of Archaeologists 2018 conference and present our project and the results. Giorgos Giannoulis presented the project and the Decision Making Tool of...
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Virtual Reality (VR) in US$ Thousand.
Algorithms The word is derived from the name of the ninth-century Persian mathematician, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who introduced decimal numbers to the West. Today it means a series of instructions that must be executed automatically by a computer. Algorithms...
Error - The art of imperfection, Ars Electronica Festival 6.-10.-09.2018, Linz, Austria At what point does an error become a mistake, a fail, and what makes it the celebrated source of unprecedented ideas and inventions? When is an error an oversight and when is it...
The International Conference on Cultural Heritage (CH) brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning cultural heritage today.
The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil
In the summer of 1940, Helsinki was supposed to host the Summer Olympics. Two years earlier Tokyo, which had been due to stage the event, had forfeited it following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Helsinki stepped in, and embarked on a city-wide...
ViMM will be at Researcher’s night in Limassol on 28/9/2018, inspiring innovative research in Europe’s Digital Heritage future. For more information visit the official website of Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation...
APEX Insight: After a successful trial period that began in July, SkyLights has launched an immersive virtual reality in-flight entertainment service for kids on XL Airways’ long-haul flights.
Colourful projections of early 20th-century paintings, including those by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, are displayed at the Atelier des Lumière – a digital museum dedicated to fine art in Paris.Located in a former foundry in the 11th arrondissement, the space is the...
The national Museum of Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro has been converted to ashes.
Most of the 20 million items it contained, including the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas, are believed to have been destroyed, along with research efforts of 200 years, of generation of curators and researchers.
After the internet and mobile internet triggered the Third Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, driven by big data, are fuelling a Fourth Industrial Revolution.
A massive new discovery shows Mayan civilization was more vast than researchers had imaginedWatch the video...
Aiming to capture and hold the attention of young students, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has launched a smartphone app that allows visitors to view a museum exhibit in augmented reality.
Over two years, a group of Japanese high school students has been painstakingly producing a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima before, during and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago today.
Adobe’s artist in residence explains how augmented reality proved to be the perfect medium to express herself.
Dive deep into the infamous ship’s fascinating history with Titanic VR.
Fashion for Good, the global sustainability initiative based in Amsterdam, has finally shared details of its new technology-forward museum for sustainable and circular fashion innovations, which was first announced at the initiative’s Innovation Day in June that...
Gamescom’s taking place in Germany this week, and both Brad Chacos and I are over here to cover it—and, of course, to cover Nvidia’s new 20-series graphics cards.
Some 700,000 objects, some old and some not so old, have gone on show on Below the Surface, a virtual museum dedicated to the archaeological objects found during the building work on the Noord-Zuidlijn, Amsterdam’s recently opened new metro route.
Do you have an innovative concept or are you developing a product using Copernicus data and information? The Copernicus Accelerator is your opportunity to turn ground-breaking ideas into commercial solutions. This extensive coaching programme supports Europe’s most...
VR and immersive video are opening up a new frontier in storytelling and education for non-profit organisations. Virtual reality and 360 or ‘spherical’ video are fast becoming popular tools in the charity sector, as they explore it as a medium for immersive...
A joint presentation of VI-MM with the Arheološki institut, Beograd(Institute of Archaeology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), at the THE VIRTUAL US - SERBIA & WEST BALKAN DATA SCIENCE WORKSHOP. Our Expert Milica Tapavicki Ilic will present...
Consider the (now deleted) tweet by The New York Times: “Obama offered balm. Trump drops verbal bombs. But both were accused, in a polarized country, of making racial tensions worse.” Consider this a textbook case of false equivalency in mainstream media: two...
NEARLY 100 YEARS ago, the contents of the Public Record Office was destroyed in a fire at the Four Courts at the outset of the civil war.With it went seven centuries of Irish historical and genealogical records that had been stored in the six-storey Victorian...
LOS ANGELES — At galleries and museums, art is increasingly competing for attention with the needy screens of visitors’ cell phones, but at the Echo Park storefront gallery Smart Objects, staring at your cell phone is the only way to appreciate the art. Their current...
Long before face filters and dancing hot dogs could alter the way we see the world and ourselves, there was already a group of people experimenting with the notion of the "real": surrealist artists.In recent years, a number of museums, artists, and institutions have...
The world’s largest classical music festival embraces virtual reality.
Authors ventured into Germany’s industrial heartland, scanning the tunnels of Prosper Haniel to preserve this piece of industrial history in volumetric & photorealistic VR for the generations to come.
Gamescom’s taking place in Germany this week, and both Brad Chacos and I are over here to cover it—and, of course, to cover Nvidia’s new 20-series graphics cards. But while Brad was busy with that on Monday, I had the day free to look around Cologne. I did the usual...
Ever since the release of the Samsung Gear VR institutions and museums have been using virtual reality (VR) as a way to better connect the audience with their subject matter. While this has generally meant physically visiting a location and experiencing a VR...
First of its kind joint UAE-India exhibition will celebrate the late visionary leaders, Sheikh Zayed and Mahatma Gandhi
From September on, everyone can experience the secrets and beauties of the Baltic Sea for the first time - without fins and snorkels, from home or on the way. This is made possible by NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union) with OstseeLIFE, Germany's first...
The global Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) market is growing exponentially and is expected to reach €150 billion in 2020. Focus is shifting from VR to AR. Europe accounts for about a fifth of the market. This makes it an interesting market for your...
VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SET TO CREATE UP TO 480,000 JOBS BY 2020 Europe is a strong and competitive hub for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and is set to become global leader. That is the key finding of a recent study by European...
If you have both the financial and hardware resources for it, the HTC Vive Pro is a thing of beauty. It offers a higher resolution than the standard Vive and can take games from ‘good looking’ to ‘gorgeous’. Similarly, improvements to the weight distribution and the...
As an increasing number of museums, art galleries and other visitor attractions embrace immersive technology like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), there are still questions on exactly what impact these new technologies have. Start-up company Cuseum is...
One might wonder why Augmented Reality is becoming so popular among museums, especially when audio guides and personal guides are so readily available at museums and the information on the internet is quite accessible from home or schools. In fact, some might even...
Laval Virtual ReVolution is an annual series of world wide VR technology demonstration competition since 2006.
Tencent endeavors to safeguard heritage and relics by utilizing modern methods, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality Li Xi, a 21-year-old college student from Beijing, had always dreamed of spending more time in the Mogao Grottoes, also known as the...
Most of us consider ourselves museum-lovers. They’re great places to visit. Museums provide historical context, connect past and present, and occasionally even offer interesting glimpses of the future. Museum tours, on the other hand, can leave much to be desired....
For many people, virtual reality is simply a way to play games and have cool, enhanced experiences, like touring the White House through 360-degree images. But in the case of a museum in Washington, D.C., it’s a way to make a really cool exhibit accessible for...
Augmented reality (AR) - adding a digital overlay to a real-world image - is giving artists and galleries opportunities to create more interactive artworks and exhibitions, providing more exciting experiences and reaching new audiences. But until AR headsets become...
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston offers a variety of capabilities to conceive, develop, adapt, infuse, and sustain intelligent systems, robotics systems, and real-time simulation systems within the programs and tasks assigned to the center. For example...
Advances in virtual reality are creating remarkable opportunities for individuals to immerse themselves in worlds that are impossible, unlikely or simply out of human reach right now. Mars 2030, a new interactive, virtual Mars experience, would allow people to...
All existing representations of war express a common desire: Take me there. Show me what I don’t know and can’t comprehend happens in other corners of the world. Make it real. Make it real so that in experiencing this reality we will change for the better, and war...
Academy-award winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, known for critically-adored films as Amores Perros, Babel, Birdman and The Revenant, based the art show production 'Carne y Arena' on his interviews with actual Central American and Mexican refugees who crossed...
The Phoenix Art Museum unveiled its first virtual reality exhibit on Saturday with displays of pop icons from the 1960s to 80s.Moonage Virtual Reality takes viewers through films celebrating Andy Warhol, David Bowie and Kenny Scharf.“Guests have the opportunity to...
The insanely popular Japanese digital art collective is coming to the US.
Going on holiday to Italy this summer? Don’t forget to visit Pompeii! With the help of EU funds, the site has been restored and expanded. Several buildings are now accessible to people with disabilities and better protected against the weather More information here...
As mentioned in an earlier post by Michael Klein the Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria) showcases the latest VR, AR and MR technologies. In addition to applications by filmmakers and animators as well as artistic approaches, the VRLab of the Ars Electronica...
The first German open cultural data hackathon is going to start in the Rhine-Main area soon. On 21. August experts will give a talk to discuss the creative potential of digital cultural heritage with cultural institutions of the Rhine-Main region and point out the new...
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) leverage VR technology to understand better how the brain creates our perception of space. To help with this the use of immersive technology is allowing researchers to build better understands and data...
A new Multimillion-Dollar App Gives to French Young People Free Access to Cultural Goods and Events
Hurtling through the air past landmarks like the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament may seem like enough of a view for anyone. But visitors to the world’s longest and fastest urban zipline can now also soar more than 5,000ft above sea level through the Hajar...
I am a postgraduate student in Museum Studies at the University of Glasgow, and for my dissertation, I am investigating the use of augmented reality in museums. Attached is a short questionnaire on a few aspects of using a technology such as augmented reality within...
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