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

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...

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Main Authors: Sorin Hermon, Loukas Kalisperis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2011-05-01
Series:Virtual Archaeology Review
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/var/article/view/4556
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-af81f4e14b55457f8a5ab0b3faa51eeb2024-12-02T00:49:32ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaVirtual Archaeology Review1989-99472011-05-0124596310.4995/var.2011.45563369Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospectsSorin Hermon0Loukas Kalisperis1The Cyprus InstituteThe Cyprus InstituteThe 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.http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/var/article/view/4556Data reliabilityMimesisScientific requirementsNew media
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Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects
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Data reliability
Mimesis
Scientific requirements
New media
title Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects
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title_fullStr Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects
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title_short Between the Real and the Virtual: 3D visualization in the Cultural Heritage domain - expectations and prospects
title_sort between the real and the virtual 3d visualization in the cultural heritage domain expectations and prospects
topic Data reliability
Mimesis
Scientific requirements
New media
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