Exploring the past with Google Cardboard

Fabola, Adeola Ezekiel; Miller, Alan; Fawcett, Richard

doi:10.1109/digitalheritage.2015.7413882

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“…The ability to transform smart phone devices into VR headsets offer affordable and portable ways to experience VR and open a wide range of possibilities of utilising this technology to support virtual museums and experience the past [33]. It has been identified that to date, there is only a small number of museums who have managed to explore the potentials of VR, mainly due to affordability of developing and executing a virtual environment [18].…”

Section: Technical Characteristics Of Vrmentioning

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Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System

Nisiotis

Alboul

Beer

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Museums are institutions that primarily care for cultural heritage exhibition, preservation and conservation of historical artifacts. However, simply displaying artifacts and provide complex information to describe them is simply not sufficient to effectively engage museum visitors. To improve visitors engagement and their overall museum experience, the use of technology utilized by museums, introducing the concept of Virtual Museums. This paper discusses the use of Virtual Reality through the use of smart phone devices as a mean of a Cyber-Physical-Social system to support, improve and enhance the visitors' experience. The RoboSHU prototype, its current development stage and future work are presented, together with the future research directions of the research team.

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Section: Technical Characteristics Of Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System

Nisiotis

Alboul

Beer

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…M oreover, the tour will be elaborated including the virtual reconstruction of the mill and the environment, so it will be possible to have some panoramic views of the area as it was in the past. In this case, the virtual tour is going to be published to use it with a simple virtual reality Head M ounted Display (HDM ) and an application for smartphone giving an immersive experience; the system employs the stereoscopy to give the illusion of depth (Fabola, 2016;M orandi et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards the Enhancement of "Minor" Archaeological Heritage

Morandi

Tremari

Mandelli

2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Commission IIKEY WORDS : Emergency survey, Digital recording method, Close range photogrammetry, Virtual archaeology, AR and VR for CH ABS TRACT:The research is an analysis of the recording, reconstruction and visualisation of the 3D data of a XVIII century watermill, identified in an emergency archaeological excavation during the construction of the mini-hydroelectric plant on the bank of the Adda river in the municipality of Pizzighettone (Cremona, Lombardy, Italy ). The work examines the use and the potentials of modern digital 3D modelling techniques applied to archaeological heritage aimed to increase the research, maintenance and presentation with interactive products. The use of three-dimensional models managed through AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) technologies with mobile devices gives several opportunities in the field of study and communication. It also improves on-site exploration of the landscape, enhancing the "minor" archaeological sites, daily subjected to numerous emergency works and facilitating the understanding of heritage sites. INTRODUCTIONThis research is an analysis of the recording, processing reconstruction and visualisation of the 3D data of a XVIII century watermill identified in an emergency archaeological excavation. The discovery, unearthed during the construction of the minihydroelectric plant, is located on the left bank of the Adda river in the municipality of Pizzighettone (Cremona, Lombardy, Italy).The aim of the paper is to show the possibilities offered by digital technologies, mostly the digital photogrammetry and the virtual archaeology, to record and enhancing the "minor" archaeological sites that are daily subjected to numerous emergency surveys over the entire territory. M ost of these interventions consistently produce vast amounts of data that are often confined to the archives and therefore not accessible to the public. * Corresponding authorThis work examines the use and the potentials of modern digital 3D modelling techniques applied to archaeological heritage to increase the divulgation and visualisation with interactive products. During fieldwork, the methodology and software employed were very sustainable, intended at surveying the site and considering the issues related to the disclosure of the acquired and processed archaeological data; in this way the collected information could be understood not only by scholars and professionals, but also by a larger audience.The paper presents furthermore a case study, replicable in other emergency excavations sites, where archaeological remains, discovered as a result of urban works, are acquired and processed directly on the place of occurrence, non-invasively and through the use of low cost technologies.

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“…5a and Fig. 5a), as described in [2]. Audio narratives were associated with each location to serve as tour guides and additional content for the user.…”

Section: Related Work: Virtual and Augmented Reality For Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On-site exploration of heritage sites using mobile technology has also been largely discussed in the public domain. A Virtual Time Window (VTW) which facilitates on-site exploration of heritage sites using an open source virtual reality server and a mobile (tablet) client viewer is introduced in [11], [12] introduces a location-aware, Augmented Reality (AR) mobile application for exploration of a historical street, [13] discusses the use of a "serious game" for heritage learning during museum visits, and the use of Google Cardboard [18] to facilitate an on-site comparison of the past and present states of St Andrews Cathedral, armed with location-awareness and audio narratives was discussed in [2].…”

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“…Pertinent to this paper, is the development of a mobile tour of St Andrews Cathedral which works with the Google Cardboard [2] and the Samsung Gear VR. These systems have been deployed in a school in the town of St Andrews in Scotland and used as the basis for learning local history as part of a module.…”

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Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study

Fabola

Miller

2016

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. This paper investigates the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a tool for cultural heritage learning, using St Andrews Cathedral as the subject matter. As part of a module focused on local history, first year secondary school pupils in a school in the town of St Andrews took part in virtual tours of the Cathedral as it stood in the 14 th Century using the Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, computer screen and Xbox controller, and answered questions aimed to elicit their experiences with the various systems. The system design and implementation is presented and the findings, observations and lessons learnt from the study are discussed.

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Exploring the past with Google Cardboard

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System

Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System

Towards the Enhancement of "Minor" Archaeological Heritage

Virtual Reality for Early Education: A Study

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