Ulster University Rekindling Old Buildings with Virtual Reality
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): TrendBT
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/10
Ulster University’s own Dr. Joan Condell explained the ways in which museums are going virtual. The university, among others, is involved in an international effort to create a virtual reality or VR environment for the Irish tourist sector.
The report stated, “Managed by Museum Nord, the €2m CINE project has nine full academic partners across Norway, Iceland, the UK and Ireland, funded by the Interreg Northern Periphery Programme.”
Condell talked about the use of VR and augmented reality of AR to sustain and protect the cultural and national heritage. The idea is to help, in part, protect the culture as well as increase the numbers of people who visit the museums.
Condell opined, “Museums are struggling with lowering visitor rates; they constantly have to redo their sales pitch.” One potential solution is to digitize the museum experience. Condell et al will work with the Donegal County Council.
The academic teams working on these AR and VR museum projects will develop interactive exhibitions in the museums.
“In addition, VR could be used to repatriate artefacts from bigger museums,” Condell said, “There may be an artefact in the British Museum, for instance, that originated in Donegal. Visitors to Donegal could see an immersive AR piece; you see and experience it like the object is in front of you, when it really isn’t.”
The initiatives equate to ways in which to bring people together. However, these need to remain realistic.
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