The 3d database of carnuntum had been recently updated showcasing more than 7300 3d scanned archaeological finds. Interested users can apply for a download of the original 3d scan for research or exhibition purposes by contacting the site administrator. About the...
Kinect, the motion-sensing wonder device for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, has had many deaths before, but today seems to bring the last spadeful of dirt on its grave. Microsoft has confirmed it is no longer manufacturing Kinect and none will be sold once retailers run...
Stereopsia 2017 Praised worldwide for its quality & conviviality, Stereopsia is about the magic, enchantment, & power of IMMERSION. For the 9th consecutive year, the event brings to its international participants pertinent, hot, and emerging information about the...
Black Box is an innovative arts and cognition research project, that is changing the way we understand dance and theatrical performance
ViMM Survey to identify the key Metadata, Terminology and Identifier Standards for Digital Heritage
Trying to understand and measure how our museum changes lives in our community.
Windows Mixed Reality gets real with SteamVR support, exclusive Microsoft games
lincoln motor company is putting continental’s ‘head-up display’ into production for the first time, allowing drivers to communicate even better with their vehicles in the future.
Virtual Storytelling in Cultural Heritage, VIMM TA2 Experts Physical Meeting
A new report published today by Historic England has revealed the vital contribution of heritage to England’s economic prosperity. Heritage is an important source of employment and draws millions of visitors each year.
Mad’in Europe project “Stories of talent by European craftsmen” has been selected to be part of the program of the European Commission “European Vocational Skills Week: Discover your Talent”.
Picturesque views of Slovenia
NUK (National Library of Slovenia) 2017
Google Arts&Culture Story
Another exciting association has recently joined our ViMM network: the international centre for archival research -ICARUS!
One of associate history professor Thomas Summerhill’s students discovered Civil War maps studied by scholars for years were radically off.
She found this while this using modern GPS and historical maps to reconstruct Civil War battlefields as a part of a research project.
A mobile application called “The Speaking Celt” is a companion to the visitors of the Museum of Celtic Heritage in Salzburg. Every time that the visitors scan a target, which is a round image that tells the visitor that there is additional content within a display...
In the Art Museum of South Texas, visitors are given an interactive and immersive experience through video, 3D images and audio from their mobile phone thanks to a new augmented reality application.This application can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices and the...
A new application at Carnegie Museum of Art lets visitors climb the steps of historic buildings, peek through their columns and even snap a picture of their virtual adventure, all with the help of augmented reality. More specifically, in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall...
A collaboration of the British museum and Oculus has led to the development of a new interactive tour that can be experienced directly within Facebook’s News Feed, using VR headsets and any web or mobile device.The user is presented with two options: tour 3,000 years...
In this post I present a couple of links that contain useful information and tools about defining and assessing social impact in cultural institutions. Both reflect the work undertaken in two very different institutions: Europeana and the Oakland Museum of...
Discover fascinating aspects of the history and culture of the subcontinent through a virtual museum showcasing objects from the Partition years to the 1970s.
It’s understandable to feel underwhelmed by augmented reality thus far; AR won’t really become interesting and practical in a mass market way until it can do more than just place 3D objects on tables
Nexto in AR, guided stories, interactive stories; Nexto powers top cultural and natural heritage destinations in Slovenia; Guided Stories, Guided tours, The Ljubljana castle, Narodna galerija
Visionary director Alejandro González Iñárritu has been awarded a special award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his VR experience. The film is currently on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and may be indicative of a shift in how we make and consume film.
enterprising new proposals were put forward by Cleveland Museum of Art, looking to double revenue, increase attendance and create an educational facility.
France’s second-fastest-growing area digitally optimizes projects, services
3DEXPERIENCity unites smart city stakeholders in collaborative “Virtual Rennes”
Digital technologies transform urban planning of more livable, resilient cities
Go behind-the-scenes and discover how TATE Modern recreated the artist’s final Parisian studio in virtual reality.
If you’re fascinated by nature and botanical illustrations, you’ll be thrilled by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This open access digital library focuses on bringing the natural world closer to people through access to writings and illustration. Thanks to the dedication of BHL staff and readers, over 100,000 images and photographs from the collection have been uploaded to their popular Flickr account since 2011.
ViMM TA4 WGs had their physical meetion on 24/11/17 at FORTH in Heraklion, Greece. Exciting results. ...
FROM Sir Walter Scott to Dame Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin and many others, the city of Edinburgh has inspired countless writers over the centuries.
NAIROBI, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — The National Museums of Kenya in partnership with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday launched an open digital library for indigenous games funded by Chinese firm, Tencent.
Examines and outlines best practices in computational research’s applications in cultural heritage, demonstrating where the field is and where it is going
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) was bought for $450 million (£342 million) in New York on Wednesday evening, shattering the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold.
VR and AR represent exciting new technologies which are being improved by the minute
Sweden today announces the opening of Sweden’s First Virtual Design Museum, also its first design museum focusing on both architecture, design and fashion. The first exhibition, “Live from Sweden”, offers visitors a glimpse into the Swedish lifestyle and the design objects Swedes surround themselves with.
FORTH welcomes ViMM experts at Heraklion, Crete on Friday 24/11/17 for a full day of discussions around the future or Virtual Museums and the use of XR technologies for digital...
North America to Dominate the Global Virtual Reality Market through 2022
2° Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Ψηφιοποίησης Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς euromed2017.eu
As governments across Japan seek to attract more foreign tourists, some are developing smartphone apps featuring virtual reality videos.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) premiered a mobile tour on Jan. 25 called Lumin that uses Google’s Tango technology to provide visitors with new, in-depth ways to engage with the DIA’s renowned collection.
International Experts Conference VIMM: Virtual Storytelling in Cultural Heritage, Maribor, 27.11.2017.
Apple is focusing on the development of a new augmented reality headset with its own chip and a brand new operating system.
Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 (30 November 2017 – 1 December 2017)
Killybegs History & Heritage Committee has been invited to take part with a number of top universities, museums and technology companies in an international three-year, multi-million euro project to bring history to life through digital augmented reality apps.
Presentation of project Fortress Barone – Storytelling with Augmented Reallity
Read more at web site http://j.mp/BaroneStorytelling (Croatian)
Reina Sofia
Rethinking Guernica
1935–2020
Chronology, itineraries & gigapixel
Visible light, ultraviolet, infrared, X-ray
The most recent technical photographic studies of Guernica have enabled the Museo Reina Sofía restoration team to draw certain conclusions for researchers and restorers.
Free online collection of high-resolution images offers visitors an intimate look at historic buildings, artwork and artefacts
Conference on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 in Vienna from April 12th till 14th, 2018
Linked Data has emerged as the preferred method for publishing and sharing cultural heritage data. One of the main challenges for museums is that the defacto standard ontology (CIDOC CRM) is complex and museums lack expertise in semantic web technologies.
Visiting historical museums and official cultural websites in Thailand was boring in the past, but not anymore.
Vive Studios has announced a new funding and development program that seeks to get virtual reality experiences to more people in the form of art installations and VR museum exhibits.
This year, there has been made great progress in linked government data in Slovak Republic. And it was the most special year up to now. After many proposals, discussions and verifications, the concept of linked data was incorporated to the Strategic Priorities – Data and Open Data, that is part of the National Concept of Informatization of Public Administration (NKIVS)
Old images of people and places in County Wexford appear on the re-designed Dúchas website and a new digital version of the National Folklore Photographic Collection, which were launched at an event in the National Library of Ireland.
The Photographic Collection containing about 10,000 photographs, many of them relating to County Wexford, is the latest resource to be added to the site after being digitised and catalogued.
Many of the photographs date from the early 20th century and include images taken by professional photographers and by collectors working with the National Folklore Commission. They are classified under 14 different topics including festivals, holy wells, settlements, community, folklore collection and games and pastimes.
In the County Wexford section, there are photographs of old thatched houses in Our Lady’s Island, Carnesore Point, Churchtown, Rosslare, Kilmore Quay and Ballybro; funeral crosses in a memorial to the dead in Enniscorthy; harvesting in Wexford; a large number from Carley’s Bridge Pottery in Enniscorthy; a holy well in Tomhaggard and Carcur Mummers at Christmas 1947.
The website contains an extensive collection of written folklore transcripts and personal testimonies from the county on customs, places, local happenings, superstitions, historical incidents including 1798, famous characters, sporting triumphs, local cures and the ‘banshee’ or’the bow’.
‘This is an incredible new resource for Wexford providing a fascinating insight into our past,’ said Fine Gael’s Minister Michael D’Arcy.
‘Fine Gael places enormous importance on our national history and heritage and on preservation of all our folklore and historic photographs. Putting all these resources online so everyone has access to them will allow people here in Wexford to witness our past from their laptops and mobile devices’, he said.
Material from schools in the 26 counties which took part in the Schools Scheme from 1937 to 1939 is also available on the website dúchas.ie which is popular with researchers and people who have an interest in history and folklore and also with the Irish diaspora around the world.
The site can be searched by place, by person and by topic and has material from almost every parish in Ireland.
The Dúchas project is the result of a partnership beginning in 2012 between the National Folklore Collection in UCD, UCD Digital Library and Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, the Irish-language teaching and research unit in DCU.
The aim is to digitise the National Folklore Collection and make it available online. The project is co-funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with support from the National Lottery and UCD.
HANGZHOU, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — About 2,000 km from a 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site, the Yungang Grottoes, 20 3D printers have been working around the clock.
A discovery that changes the history of art, made possible through physical and digital techniques. The amazing masterpiece appearing in the images following does not belong to the classical period. It has been discovered in an unearthed 1,500-year-old tomb of a...
'Cervantes VR', una nueva experiencia de realidad virtual para conocer la vida del genio de las letras 12 may 2017 A digital project of Iralta Films and Lab.RTVE.es assisting the public to understand the classic Author and his work. Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quijote...
The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, the world’s oldest continually operating monastery.
Virtual reality will transport audiences to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef in supernatural coming-of-age thriller Frogman.
“What do we do when they’re gone?” That’s a question that’s been asked frequently at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center; 72 years after the end of World War II, many Holocaust survivors are now passing away
Take a scary virtual-reality journey through the Haunted House at museum of Natural science
Gaza’s new Digital Museum 360, a virtual museum established by the University of Palestine, has brought the masterpieces of the world to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Microsoft is opening its first Mixed Reality capture studios in San Francisco and London, allowing developers and creators to create holograms from real life objects.
Filmed with a 360-degree camera, this footage allows you to explore the space in a number of ways. If you’re watching on a desktop or laptop, you can change your viewpoint by placing the cursor directly on the video to click and drag around each room.
In the modern workplace mixed reality is expanding by helping real people solve real problems with real solutions. For instance, mixed reality is used in the modern workplace as: Remote Assist, Training, Design, 3D in office, Mixed Reality meetings and Mixed Reality...
Storytelling plays a very important role in Virtual Museums. That is, because the way that an exhibition is presented in virtual or augmented reality is crucial, as it one of the first elements that a visitor notices and also it accompanies him through his virtual...
The team behind a new accessory for virtual reality headsets that will create wind and synchronize it to VR events, immersing users even deeper into the VR content, came up with the idea for their gadget by happenstance.
Universal Music Group on Monday announced a strategic alliance with virtual and augmented reality entertainment company Within to create and develop experiences featuring artists from UMG’s roster.
It has been another big week in digital archaeology and history, folks. In this week’s Digest, we explore the digitization of Biblical manuscripts, ancient timepieces, Byzantine shipwrecks and the import of Open Access ideas within the field of archaeology.
VR Visit to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, No Time Machine Necessary A controversial virtual-reality tour showing the Temple before its destruction is dazzling. But that doesn’t mean the producers want it rebuilt. For the first time in Israel you can take a tour of the...
When No Man’s Sky launched last year, an archaeology PhD student led a team of 30 players on a survey intending to understand the algorithms that built the game’s worlds
We’ve seen some interesting ways that augmented reality can inform purchasing decisions by superimposing products into our living rooms and even into our mouths (hello million-dollar smile).
Augmented reality technologies promise to transform how we learn, make decisions, and interact with the physical world. In this package we explain what AR is, how its applications are evolving, and why it’s so important.
The ubiquity of smartphones and 4G networks in the last decade have changed our society and economy in dramatic ways. The most visible way in which society has transformed is that it’s become commonplace to see people staring at tiny 2D screens in their hands while tapping, pinching, and swiping on mobile content.
Imagine grocery shopping with a set of glasses that directs you to your preferred items on the shelf, or repairing your car with help from an expert technician who virtually comes into your garage to walk you through the fix. Imagine visiting the Louvre Museum in France with your kids, without ever setting foot on an airplane.
Augmented reality may be a big part of the future of shopping. Mastercard, Osterhout Design Group, and Qualcomm have created a prototype retail experience that incorporates augmented reality glasses, iris authentication, and seamless mobile payments.
Virtual reality’s failure to live up to its hype is well documented. Poor user retention plays a significant role in this matter, as it does with any other technology product.
From VR to AR, emerging mobile technology is going to have a significant impact on how the site engages with its readers in the real world.
Head a few miles north of the Sandton Convention Center, where more than a thousand producers, broadcasters, and assorted industry execs are gathering this week to discuss the latest trends in African content at Discop, and you can deep-sea dive off the Galapagos islands, battle zombies, buckle up for a trip to the moon—or look into the future.
MEMORY OF THE WORLD REGISTER – AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE
ICOMOS Annual Report 2016
When Peter Arvai founded Prezi in 2009, he didn’t set out to topple PowerPoint. He just wanted to see better presentations. With the right tools, he figured, he could help people create visual aids that felt more engaging. Arvai was sick of sitting through slide decks containing walls of text and bullet-pointed lists, listening to the speaker ramble on while the audience squinted at the words on the screen.
The technology of virtual reality is evolving every day. As the price of the headsets becomes lower, more and more people gain access to this techonology, something that makes it more popular. This technology allows the user to enter a virtual world and explore it in...
” Discover, remember and share ” is the theme of this year’s celebration of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
Heritage & innovation: superb 3D reconstruction of the archaeological site of Amrit (Syria) by @iconem
World Congress on Dance Research
Athens, Greece, 4-8 July 2018
http://2018CongressAthens.cid-world.org
Virtual reality and augmented reality have delivered realistic visuals and sound to virtual experiences, but they’re completely lacking a sense of touch. Tactai wants to change that with a new kind of multi-modal touch feedback technology.
The fight against illicit trafficking in cultural goods requires the enhancement of legal instruments and the use of practical tools disseminating information, raising public awareness, and preventing illegal exportation
In 2017, a prospective home buyer doesn’t have to wait until an open house to take a peek inside their dream home.
Virtual Reality will change the face of cinema in the next decade – but only if content keeps up with the advances in technology, industry experts at the Busan International Film Festival predict.
Tech tricks are deployed to customize and personalize museum experiences
How to Manage Data and Knowledge Related to Interpretative Digital 3D Reconstructions of Cultural Heritage
The University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies is celebrating the opening of its new museum exhibit, Vilna: The Jerusalem of Lithuania, on Monday, October 30, at 8:30 p.m. in the University’s Museum of Jewish Civilization located inside the Harrison Libraries.
Artist Ian Cheng calls his computer-generated simulations “video games that play themselves.” Projected onto a 13-foot LED screen in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery, Mr. Cheng’s “Emissary Sunsets The Self” catches the eye and pulls the mind into a rich, ever-morphing and unpredictable virtual world that’s like a living work of art.
The Bronx’s planned Universal Hip-Hop Museum is expected to boast a recording studio, virtual graffiti wall and dozens of photos and records highlighting the music genre’s growth, according to co-chairman Kurtis Blow
Museum meets virtual reality at Tower of David’s new Innovation Lab
Tentative Program 2017 (TBC)
Tourism businesses are being encouraged to use virtual reality in a bid to promote Welsh attractions.
This week is International Open Access Week, which runs from October 23rd-29th and aims to raise the visibility of open scholarship and accelerate research through events and campaigns. This year, the theme for International Open Access Week is ‘Open in order to…’.
JEDDAH: The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) announced that it has successfully retrieved more than 52,000 artefacts from inside and outside the country as part of the National Project for Digital Recording of Antiquities, which follows international standards for archaeological recording and archiving.
Alex Kipman knows about hardware. Since joining Microsoft 16 years ago, he has been the primary inventor on more than 100 patents, including Xbox Kinect’s pioneering motion-sensing technology that paved the way for some of the features in his latest creation, the...
The world’s biggest software maker is hoping to succeed where Facebook, HTC and Sony haven’t yet.
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