Microsoft’s next major Windows 10 release for 2017, the Fall Creators Update, doesn’t make any huge waves. But you might have gathered that from its name alone. In many ways, it’s a continuation of what the company started with this spring’s Creators Update, which added Paint 3D, game mode and a slew of improvements focused on making things, be it art or a simple spreadsheet

Virtual and augmented reality, the two technologies that play an important role on the cultural heritage preservation, have recently become a part of the Tower of David museum. Startups that develop virtual and augmented reality technologies are spread in the nooks of...

NORTH MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach 2017, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will showcase “How to Unlock a Portal” by Swedish artist Jacob Felländer. Felländer is internationally recognized for his collections of large scale manipulated photographs of cityscapes.  This will be his first solo exhibition and debut in the U.S. The exhibition will run from December 7, 2017 – February 11, 2018. Art Basel Miami Beach will take place from December. 7–10, 2017.

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An online museum honoring the Tuskegee Airmen launched Monday and is now available to internet users. 

VR experience using storytelling to present the life and work of inventor Nikola Tesla.

Ford is making cars using Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset, as part of a new test project the automaker is rolling out globally. The mixed reality design trial allows for rapid prototyping in a virtual environment, instead of having to create new physical models to see what new materials and angles will look like on a final design.

The Microsoft HoloLens—originally an enhancement for video games—helps users “see” the links between proteins and genes related to cancer, diabetes, and autism

Welcome to the new reality: how augmented tech is shaping the future
Reality is becoming a lot less real. We know about virtual reality but now there’s also augmented and mixed reality.

VR and AR are now widely known terms for travel brands but could ‘mixed reality’ deliver something different?
Imagine a day when cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) and customer relationship management insights all come together in a digital display on the screen of a pair of slick high-tech glasses?

By integrating survey data acquired from a variety of instruments, a Queensland firm has provided its client with high precision design criteria in a format the client can literally see, not just imagine.

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4th Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation

The century-long journey from birth to rise of the public education system through more than 1,000 texts & visuals.

Openness is a key world for cultural heritage too. The digital transformation of europe’s culture is the key factor.

VR alone may not yet offer brands the scale they seek, but thanks to location-based VR, VR-based filmmaking and AR, VR can still be valuable

When we use information, we need to understand what we’re looking at. We do this by framing that information — sharing new details about what it is and how we can use it. For museum collections that connect data points across centuries of artworks and objects, institutions are turning to new tools to share and communicate that data. Here, we can look at four institutions using GitHub as a platform to share collections data — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian, Design Museum, and the Tate collection — as an opportunity to parse current practice in this area.

Fidelity Investments is testing virtual reality technology to train customer service representatives in its call centers across the United States.

The Pixar of virtual reality (VR)  may just be Pixar, after all: The iconic studio announced its first-ever VR experience at Facebook’s fourth Oculus Connect virtual reality (VR) developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Wednesday. “Coco VR” will launch on Oculus Rift and Gear VR headsets in November.

Legendary Italian soccer club Juventus FC launched a virtual reality app Thursday with four episodes taking users onto the match-day pitch, behind the scenes at training and into the middle of its Serie A championship celebration last season.

Walking by the MIT Museum is intriguing this fall — a quick peek through its Mass Ave windows shows patrons decked out in heavy goggles and backpacks meandering through a mostly empty space. They’re participating in The Enemy, a virtual reality (VR) experience intended to inform people about perspectives of war. We are about to join them.

Virtual reality headsets could become the “opera glasses” of the 21st century, allowing gig-goers at the back of the crowd to transport themselves to the front row, or even the stage, according to music industry experts.

It’s easy to be apathetic about augmented reality. It’s been around for a long time in demonstrations and lodged into bits of apps, but never been anything close to a reason to actually buy a phone.

Last month, Apple launched iOS 11, and with it, a slate of augmented reality (AR) applications that allow users to do things like paint in thin air, try out virtual furniture, and fill the world with gifs galore

I don’t know if you’re into baroque music, but I can tell you that Germans sure are. So it’s no surprise that German R&D outfit Fraunhofer has turned its considerable resources towards learning about and conserving every little detail of the instruments for which the likes of Bach and Handel composed their music. Specifically, they’re putting them into an enormous x-ray machine.

6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II

6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings,

Move over virtual reality, there’s a new reality taking over at meetings, conferences, and events. Augmented reality has the potential to change the way people see events — literally.
— Sheryll Poe

Imagine if a surgeon could see the vessel structure of a patient’s liver superimposed onto a picture of the actual organ to guide her in removing a tumour safely, without cutting a vital blood vessel.

Physical and virtual photography exhibition done by archives … Terrassa’s (catalan city) Joan Biarnés (50’s photographer) example.

CHENNAI: What if you could take a trip to the famous Madurai Meenakshi temple from wherever you are? At the click of a button, several historical sites and monuments will soon be open for a virtual tour.

Facebook has unveiled its new Oculus Go virtual-reality headset, which functions without being plugged into a computer or paired with a phone.

Unveiled earlier this week, the headset is the first major hardware launch from Oculus since the company was bought by Facebook in 2014. It joins a product range that also includes the mobile Oculus Gear VR and the high-end Oculus Rift.

Much like its competitor, the social media giant will offer a variety of filters, masks, frames and animation.

Breakthroughs in virtual reality could soon shape the museums of the future.

Virtual reality company Lithodomos VR has created an incredible reconstruction of Athens, just as it was 2,000 years ago. Imagine being able to put on a VR headset, being transported back in time, and exploring Athens exactly as it would have looked in its prime. With Lithodomos VR, this is precisely what you can now do.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and Nesta have launched the findings of a pilot programme, in a report titled Matching the Crowd – combining crowdfunding and institutional funding to get great ideas off the ground.

What kind of reality do we want to live in – a virtual or augmented world? Two of the most powerful men in the technology world disagreed this week on whether VR or AR was the answer. On Tech Tent we discuss which technology is winning. We also hear from teenage tech award winners with an optimistic view of women’s place in the technology industry, and we meet the founder of Evernote who tells us why the world has fallen out of love with Silicon Valley.

Virtual Reality is a technology that not only allows users to view things that normally do not exist in our world, but it also gives them the feeling that they are actually a part of this virtual world. The benefits of this technology in preserving our cultural...

Augmented Reality is a technology that allows us to see things through a device that normally do not exist in our world. What if this was used in order to let us have access on how an area or a building used to look like in the past?The National Museum of Singapore...

Assassin’s Creed Origins introduces a brand-new “Discovery Tour” mode, which will be added to the game in a free update in early 2018. It’s a completely different way to experience the Ubisoft’s worlds, with a focus — in a nifty twist — on education.

With its latest project, El Tercer Ojo, the journalists are transferring their notable digital reports on the transnational pharmaceutical industry and trafficking of cultural heritage into a series of print editions, with digital version, they hope will reach new audiences.

BENGALURU: In another fortnight, you can point your phone at the St Mark’s Cathedral, Mayo Hall, Oriental Building or East Parade Church to access stories of its past. You can also share personal anecdotes or trivia about the structure with others through an online network.

PARTHENOS stands for “Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies”. It is inspired by the name of Athena Parthenos, the Greek goddess of wisdom, inspiration and civilization.

@Reality will provide the University community with a dedicated space, equipment, software and expertise to properly support experimentation, exploration of virtual reality and augmented reality mediums

The Culture Ministry is embracing the Thailand 4.0 initiative with its new hi-tech “smart museum” and “virtual museum” projects that aim to attract 10-11 million visitors next year.

For the first time in its history, the State Hermitage Museum is hosting an exhibition that doesn’t have a single original item. Words of Stones, on display at the museum’s General Staff building, is devoted to a digitalized version of the ancient Muslim settlement of Qala–Quraysh in southern Dagestan. It consists entirely of copies of ancient artefacts.

A working definition to describe the Virtual Museum (VM)

Researchers say ancient writings could provide answer to ‘one of the greatest puzzles of Mediterranean archaeology’
Ancient symbols on a 3,200-year-old stone slab have been deciphered by researchers who say they could solve “one of the greatest puzzles of Mediterranean archaeology”.

In an effort to ‘combat beige shopping’, Ebay has set up an interactive experience that uses real-time brain wave scans to try and get you to think about your motivations for the items you choose.

Discover the history of the ‘Hotel Silber’ (Hotel Silver) in Germany by going on a virtual tour through the building.

Tour your own photos in the Louvre museum or an art gallery. With Instamuseum you’ll create your own 3D gallery in just minutes. You can share it with your friends and explore it in VR!

A project out of the University of Calgary is capturing Alberta heritage sites in a way that educates residents about their importance, but also provides a blueprint for comparing damage over time.

It’s called reality capture technology and it can also provide insight into Alberta’s history, a seasoned U of C archaeologist says.

“New Dimensions in Testimony” is an exhibit designated for future generations to be able to learn about the Holocaust from survivors even after the last of them passes away

Heritage Biologics, a leader in Rare Disease Outcomes Management (RDOM), is announcing the launch of their HBnow virtual care program.

The European project DigiArt, a consortium of seven organizations, is researching technology to: find efficient, low cost workflows to survey and digitally preserve archaeological sites, and bring history closer to the public in innovative ways. In May, 2016, Pix4D...

Machine-learning point cloud classification With Pix4Dmapper 4.0 you get machine-learning tools for photogrammetry applications in your hands. It allows you to classify 3D point clouds into categories like buildings, roads or vegetation. Read...

Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city's golden age. Nature magazine covers DHLAB's Venice Time Machine in a 4 page article : Link to article  ...

The Israel Museum is free for children Tuesdays and Saturdays and every day during August. This is just part of a comprehensive summer program in the museum that includes an exhibition for the whole family about Cats and Dogs, a huge Escape Room that takes place across the entire Museum campus, Guided Tours for the whole family and plenty more.

Offers an essential introduction to the theories, development and applications of enabling technologies for mixed reality and gamified interaction in the context of cultural heritage and creative industries

Website allows people to experience a 3D view of the SS Thistlegorm, a British merchant steam ship sunk in 1941, seen as one of the world’s best wreck dives

A new immersive lab has opened in Brighton which will enable theatre companies to experiment with virtual reality technology.

This is the second immersive lab to be opened by Digital Catapult, which supports innovation in technology, following the launch of a London facility earlier this year.

The 3-D digital re-creation and preservation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African-American church in Indianapolis, will be unveiled Oct. 6 to the public.

Palmer Luckey, a co-founder of Oculus, has recently expressed his desire to develop nerve-stimulating implants to make virtual reality experiences more immersive. He is just one of several innovators looking for ways to use technology to augment the human body.

The National Theatre is using augmented reality technology to improve accessibility in its live performances as part of a collaboration with Epson and Accenture.

What if medical students could project bear-sized holographic brains in their dorm rooms when studying for an anatomy exam? What if surgeons could use those holograms to prepare for complex surgeries or even support the operations themselves? HoloLens appears to be the platform for the medical application of mixed reality, so I was curious how it performs and whether it is already fit for healthcare. Check out my HoloLens review below!

CODA Museum in Apeldoorn opened a virtual tour in the bunker of ‘Rijkscommissaris Seyss-Inquart”. The HTC Vive is used to enter the virtual world, the controllers are used to teleport, drag and drop, turn on sounds and animations.

Microsoft held a special Windows Mixed Reality event in San Francisco yesterday, to launch its range of new VR headsets

Technology is set to play a vital role in helping the 263 million children globally who are not in school

Many manufacturing jobs require a physical presence to operate machinery. But what if such jobs could be done remotely? Researchers have now presented a virtual-reality (VR) system that lets you teleoperate a robot using an Oculus Rift headset.

Intel says it’s planning to deliver a Windows Mixed Reality experience for the Winter Olympics next year.

The technology of Augmented Reality has already entered our lives and keeps evolving every day. It is pretty often that we see a new incorporation of the Augmented Reality technology to new applications. Such a new application is called “Smartify” which is used in art...

Customer acquisition costs money. Did you know that AI is making lead generation cheaper?

Digital technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. So it was only a matter of time before the ways people interact with the past and ancient artefacts in museum settings became digital, too.

Augmented reality is one of the most promising digital technologies at present and it has the potential to change healthcare and everyday medicine completely for physicians and patients alike.

Museums are looking at the best attendance they’ve ever had, thanks to the way technology is revolutionizing the consumption of art.

6 simple tools, endless possibilities. Six tools for creating models as simple as a mug and as complex as a spaceship.

From Digital Culture 2017 (PDF) :"The 27 per cent of organisations reporting low levels of positive impact from digital tend to undertake fewer digital activities on average, especially in complex areas such as VR or livestreaming. They tend to have digital expertise...

The Farm 51 is a team of enthusiasts. We develop computer games and virtual reality applications, and contribute to the dynamic growth of the new technologies market. Our projects combine game development experience, advanced photogrammetry and 3D scanning solutions, as well as passion for telling interesting, original stories. The Farm 51 also includes the Reality 51 team, which is focused primarily on technological advancements and the virtual reality market.

This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met’s art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum’s iconic spaces as never before.

Very interesting project about virtual reconstructions in transnational research environment. The project examines the process of computer-based 3D reconstruction of lost architecture and interior decoration of palaces and parks in former East Prussia. Visit the website of the Herder-Institute to learn more.

With 3D models you can explore the Vatican and Rome as if you’re there while being able to see at the same time how things used to look like in history.

Augmented Reality (AR) has been a part of our life for quite some time now. It is a great innovation, which lately became really easy to use, as the need of pricey equipment and its usage complexity, has come to an end. That is because, Augmented Reality is accessible...

Artsteps is a a web-based environment that allows its members to create virtual art galleries in lifelike 3D spaces. It is an application for artists, art organizations and art enthusiasts to model actual or virtual exhibitions by designing realistic 3-dimensional room complexes. Virtual exhibitions may include 2-dimensional artifacts (e.g. paintings, photos and posters), 3-dimensional artifacts (e.g. sculptures or small installations) and streaming videos.

“Unite4Heritage reminds us that the most serious challenges to the common heritage of humankind have societal causes and that only a changed, heightened awareness of these societal causes will help us to find lasting solutions to this constant loss of cultural wealth.” Interview with Markus Hilgert, Director of Vorderasiatisches Museum im Pergamonmuseum.

Ever wondered how London smelled in the 1850s? Probably not so good. A British project is investigating on the smellscape of London by data mining over 5500 medical reports from 1848 to 1972. Head on over to the project’s website, discover smell categories from Thames waters to factory smells and have a look at historic maps.

VI-SEEM e-Infrastructure and services 3 day training event in Belgrade, Serbia

3DHOP (3D Heritage Online Presenter) is an open-source software package for the creation of interactive Web presentations of high-resolution 3D models, oriented to the Cultural Heritage field.

Stroll around in the virtual exhibitions of the famous NYC Frick Collection. You can find tours from 2011 – 2017.

Interesting video about a 3D morphing algorithm developed to analyze the style of archaeological objects.

“Explore 15 high-fidelity sculptures ranging from Michelangelo’s Pieta to the gigantic Great Buddha. Available this Friday, Free to Play.”

“Using both VR, AR, and 3D printed models, the exhibit allowed visitors to explore the artifacts across multiple spaces.”

Application of Augmented Reality (AR) in museums, in order to preserve our cultural heritage.

A special Augmented Reality browser was developed within EUCEMET project.
This mobile app provides additional information on the screen as a user walks around. So, helping a user to get somewhere and learn something on the way was the main reason why ARtour mobile app was born and created.
ARtour is a platform that allows you to create your own mobile guides, or use already created guides from other users. It is useful as a personal trip planner with navigation, or an easy way to create a mobile guide for tourist organisations.

Virtual reality in your pocket !

2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Special attention will be given to the European dimension of the projects.
Applications for the 2018 edition of the Awards can be submitted by 1 October 2017.

dLib.si portal – The Digital Library of Slovenia – provides access to a wide range of digital contents in fields of science, art and culture. As an online source of information, it constitutes an essential component of the modern educational and scientific research process, and is one of the cornerstones of the information society development. Moreover, it ensures preservation of the Slovenian written cultural heritage in digital form, thus digital contents of the past and present will be accessible to future generations.

Viar360 is a company developing a cloud-based content management system for virtual and augmented reality that will empower publishers, educators, brands, and businesses.

An extraordinary example of a mixed reality museum installation. Donald H. Sanders, PhD, President, Learning Sites, Inc. In 2012, a team of historians, scientists, and archaeologists began to study the Spoils Panel of the Arch of Titus, Rome using ultraviolet visual...