Author: konstantin

Google has teamed up with the London and Berlin Natural History Museums to create a unique online exhibition featuring a staggering 300,000 specimens. Using the firm’s Street View, interactive interior shots of the famous museums enable people to wander its halls from the comfort of their own home. The nine virtual exhibitions included the experience include the first T-Rex fossil ever found, extinct mammoths and a skull from a narwhal or ‘sea unicorn’. link (google) link (Natural History Museum...

Virtual reality moves on to tourism presenting sites and touristic destinations. A interesting blog gathers information about the implementation of AR and VR into tourism....

During the opening keynote of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled Project Alloy, an all-in-one virtual reality solution leveraging Intel RealSense technology. Project Alloy will be offered as an open platform in 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation)...

Developing a volumetric display of the kind we see in science fiction movies is a dream of many display researchers. It seems that small breakthroughs are on the way as scientists of the Utsunomiya University (Japan) have proved. A interesting paper published in the journal of the optical society (US) explains and showcases these first attempts....

The MAV is located a few steps away from archaeological excavations of ancient Herculaneum. It is a center of culture and technology applied to cultural heritage and communication among the most advanced in Italy. Inside is a unique and extraordinary museum: a virtual and interactive tour where the excitement of an amazing journey back through time just before the Plinian eruption in 79 AD that destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.More than seventy multimedia installations returned life and splendor to the main archaeological sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Baia, Stabiae and Capri.Through reconstructions, visual interfaces and holograms, the...