Cultural heritage applications of virtual reality

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Walczak ◽  
Martin White
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue “Virtual Reality and Its Application in Cultural Heritage”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1530
Author(s):  
Christos Fidas ◽  
Stella Sylaiou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
End Users ◽  
Special Issue

Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide new opportunities for Cultural Heritage (CH) organizations to attract, engage, and support end-users more efficiently and effectively [...]

scholarly journals Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Stavroula Tzima ◽  
Georgios Styliaras ◽  
Athanasios Bassounas
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Local History ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hybrid Type ◽  
Game Mechanics

Escape Rooms are presently considered a very popular social entertainment activity, with increasing popularity in education field, since they are considered capable of stimulating the interest of players/students and enhancing learning. The combined game mechanics have led to blended forms of Escape Rooms, the Serious Escape Games (SEGs) and the hybrid type of Escape Rooms that uses Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality technology, a type that is expected to be widely used in the future. In the current study, the MillSecret is presented, a multi-player Serious Escape Game about local cultural heritage, where the players must solve a riddle about the cultural asset of watermills. MillSecret uses AR technology and it was designed to be conducted in the real-physical environment and in an informal educational context. The paper describes the game, its implementation, the playing process, and its evaluation, which aimed to study the feasibility of game conduction in outdoor settings and the views and experience of players with the game, the local cultural heritage and local history. Evaluation results reveal, among other findings, a very positive first feedback from players that allows us to further evolve the development of the game.

11th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaology and Cultural Heritge: 8th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-233
Author(s):  
Alessandro Artusi ◽  
Morwena Joly ◽  
Geneviève Lucet ◽  
Alejandro Ribes ◽  
Denis Pitzalis
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
11Th International Symposium

scholarly journals Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Hermon ◽  
Loukas Kalisperis
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Communication Medium ◽  
The Real ◽  
Data Transparency ◽  
Research Tools

<p>The paper discusses two uses of 3D Visualization and Virtual Reality (hereafter VR) of Cultural Heritage (CH) assets: a less used one, in the archaeological / historical research and a more frequent one, as a communication medium in CH museums. While technological effort has been mainly invested in improving the “accuracy” of VR (determined as how truthfully it reproduces the “CH reality”), issues related to scientific requirements, (data transparency, separation between “real” and “virtual”, etc.), are largely neglected, or at least not directly related to the 3D outcome, which may explain why, after more than twenty years of producing VR models, they are still rarely used in the archaeological research. The paper will present a proposal for developing VR tools as such as to be meaningful CH research tools as well as a methodology for designing VR outcomes to be used as a communication medium in CH museums.</p>

scholarly journals INTERACTIVE IMMERSIVE VIRTUALMUSEUM: DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION FOR VIRTUAL INTERACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-2 ◽  
pp. 251-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Clini ◽  
L. Ruggeri ◽  
R. Angeloni ◽  
M. Sasso
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Fragile Sites ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Roman Forum

Thanks to their playful and educational approach Virtual Museum systems are very effective for the communication of Cultural Heritage. Among the latest technologies Immersive Virtual Reality is probably the most appealing and potentially effective to serve this purpose; nevertheless, due to a poor user-system interaction, caused by an incomplete maturity of a specific technology for museum applications, it is still quite uncommon to find immersive installations in museums.<br> This paper explore the possibilities offered by this technology and presents a workflow that, starting from digital documentation, makes possible an interaction with archaeological finds or any other cultural heritage inside different kinds of immersive virtual reality spaces.<br> Two different cases studies are presented: the National Archaeological Museum of Marche in Ancona and the 3D reconstruction of the Roman Forum of Fanum Fortunae. Two different approaches not only conceptually but also in contents; while the Archaeological Museum is represented in the application simply using spherical panoramas to give the perception of the third dimension, the Roman Forum is a 3D model that allows visitors to move in the virtual space as in the real one.<br> In both cases, the acquisition phase of the artefacts is central; artefacts are digitized with the photogrammetric technique Structure for Motion then they are integrated inside the immersive virtual space using a PC with a HTC Vive system that allows the user to interact with the 3D models turning the manipulation of objects into a fun and exciting experience.<br> The challenge, taking advantage of the latest opportunities made available by photogrammetry and ICT, is to enrich visitors’ experience in Real Museum making possible the interaction with perishable, damaged or lost objects and the public access to inaccessible or no longer existing places promoting in this way the preservation of fragile sites.

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