Author: konstantin

AUGMENTED REALITY IS TRANSFORMING MUSEUMS

AUGMENTED REALITY IS TRANSFORMING MUSEUMS

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | , , |

NEW YORK’S MUSEUM of Modern Art is under siege. Well, a virtual siege, at least. A group of renegade artists has co-opted the brightly-lit Jackson Pollock gallery on the museum’s fifth floor, turning it into their personal augmented reality playground. To the uninitiated, the gallery remains unchanged; Pollock’s distinctive drip paintings are as prominent and pristine as ever. But to those that have downloaded the MoMAR Gallery app on their smartphones, the impressionist’s iconic paintings are merely markers—points of reference telling the app where to display the guerilla artists’ works. Viewed through the app, Pollock’s paintings are either remixed beyond recognition or...

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Adobe announce Project Aero for AR authoring

Adobe announce Project Aero for AR authoring

Posted by | Jun 13, 2018 | |

Adobe has announced a new AR authoring tool called Project Aero. The software is a collaboration between Adobe to creating authoring tools for Apple’s ARKit enabled devices, using Pixar’s new USDZ file format. The latter is described as a way to display rendered 3D AR content using a  “zero compression, unencrypted zip archive” that they hope will become a standard for AR content. Adobe will be adding support for USDZ across the Creative Cloud suite, with Autodesk and Sketchup promising to add support soon. Read...

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TELL EL DABA – A PUZZLE IN 4D

TELL EL DABA – A PUZZLE IN 4D

Posted by | May 27, 2018 | , , |

Reconstructing Tell el-Daba In 2017, the VIMM project partner  7reasons had the chance to collaborate with the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW), OREA Digital Archaeology Research Group and Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for archaeological prospection and virtual archaeology, reconstructing and digitising  the long term excavation project of  Prof. Manfred Bietak at Tell el Daba /Aegypt. The visualisation of the temple complex was used for various publications but is also accsessable on the projects site giving a insight to the projects aims  as well as howcasing the results in 3d realtime applications (see bottom of the page). The main motivation for the visualisation of...

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KLIMT’S MAGIC GARDEN at the Museum of applied Arts, Vienna

KLIMT’S MAGIC GARDEN at the Museum of applied Arts, Vienna

Posted by | May 23, 2018 | , , , |

A Virtual Reality Experience by Frederick Baker WED, 07.02.2018–SUN, 07.10.2018, MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION CONTEMPORARY ART On the centenary of the death of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), the MAK is focusing on the artist’s designs for the mosaic frieze—a highlight of its collection—in the dining room of the Stoclet House in Brussels: KLIMT’S MAGIC GARDEN is a virtual reality experiment, inspired by Klimt’s masterpieces Expectation and Fulfillment. The virtual reality artist and filmmaker Frederick Baker has used high-resolution digital photographic material to create a fantastic virtual world in which visitors can embark on an interactive filmic journey. Read...

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Discounts Continue for Windows VR Headsets

Discounts Continue for Windows VR Headsets

Posted by | May 22, 2018 | |

If you’ve been eyeing a Windows VR headset, you’ll be interested to see the huge discounts currently available from Amazon US on every Windows VR headset. HP’s headset is currently leading the pack on discounted pricing, found on Amazon for $225, a whopping 50% discount, including controllers. The article gives a good overview of discounted VR Headsets which seems to be a correction to the demands of the market. Read...

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