Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

The sights and sounds of a Viking army camp have been brought to life through state-of-the-art virtual reality at the Yorkshire Museum in York. Visitors will be able to see what life was like in a Viking camp in Torksey, Lincolnshire, in AD872-873, as the Vikings waited out the winter months preparing to conquer vast swathes of England. A virtual reality mask has been created by researchers at the University of York working with the museum’s digital team. Academics from the archaeology, electronics and interactive media departments have created immersive views of life in the camp, including Vikings repairing...

Those unable to visit Mies van der Rohe‘s iconic Barcelona Pavilion can now tour the building remotely through a virtual-reality experience created by architectural visualisation studio CL3VER. Barcelona-based 3D visualisation studio CL3VER worked with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation to create the virtual tour, which gives users 360-degree views of each aspect of the Barcelona Pavilion. The tour is hosted on the websites of both the Mies van der Rohe Foundation and CL3VER. Originally designed in 1929 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich as Germany’s national pavilion for the Barcelona Expo, the building is now considered a seminal work of the modern movement. The structure was disassembled following the...

What’s New: Intel and the Smithsonian American Art Museum* (SAAM) will allow audiences to take an immersive dive into some of the country’s most treasured art and history through virtual reality (VR). Together, they will transform the future of education and the museum experience by digitizing and providing broader 3D access to collections from SAAM and its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery*, starting with the exhibition, “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man.” “Virtual reality will bring about cutting-edge computing experiences and accelerate new possibilities for how people will explore and interact with the world around them. As the technology evolves,...

It’s the next best thing to actually being there. Iolani Palace has debuted a virtual reality visitor experience, the first of its kind for a Hawaii museum. Now visitors can do an online walkthrough of the royal palace that was home to the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Assembled with 3D scanning technology, the virtual model captures all the grandeur of Iolani’s beautiful koa wood staircase, its bold Blue Room, where the royals spent most of their time engaging informal and smaller audiences, and eclectic artifacts like the pair of elephant tusks in the Gold Room gifted to King Kalakaua...