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Virtual Museums, a history – Part 1: the originsA brief history of virtual museums. Part 1: from early experiments to different types of digital museum to the virtual Guggenheim by Asymptote architects Virtual Museums, a history – Part 2: now and beyondHistory of virtual museums, part 2. Virtual tours, augmented reality, intangible heritage, new immersive digital museums, experimental interaction...

Khronos announces VR standards initiative The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, announced a call for participation in a new initiative to define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern VR devices. Key components of the new standard will include APIs for tracking of headsets, controllers and other objects, and for easily integrating devices into a VR runtime. This will enable applications to be portable to any VR system that conforms to the Khronos standard. More on The Khronos Group’s...