Virtual museums for all: employing game technology for edutainment

Lepouras, George; Vassilakis, Costas

doi:10.1007/s10055-004-0141-1

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“…Virtual museums are spreading in recent years and many applications have been developed using game technologies (Lepouras & Vassilakis, 2004). These applications provide an ideal means for the digital representation of cultural heritage sites (El-Hakim et al 2006) in order to entertain and educate visitors and also examine all the technologies and tools used in the museum (Hall et al 2001;Sylaiou at al.…”

Section: Virtual Museum Applicationsmentioning

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Developing a Virtual Museum for the Ancient Wine Trade in Eastern Mediterranean

Kazanis

Kontogianni

Chliverou

et al. 2017

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

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ABSTRACT:Digital technologies for representing cultural heritage assets of any size are already maturing. Technological progress has greatly enhanced the art of virtual representation and, as a consequence, it is all the more appealing to the general public and especially to younger generations. The game industry has played a significant role towards this end and has led to the development of edutainment applications. The digital workflow implemented for developing such an application is presented in this paper. A virtual museum has been designed and developed, with the intention to convey the history of trade in the Eastern Mediterranean area, focusing on the Aegean Sea and five productive cities-ports, during a period of more than 500 years. Image based modeling methodology was preferred to ensure accuracy and reliability. The setup in the museum environment, the difficulties encountered and the solutions adopted are discussed, while processing of the images and the production and finishing of the 3D models are described in detail. The virtual museum and edutainment application, MEDWINET, has been designed and developed with the intention to convey the essential information of the wine production and trade routes in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The user is able to examine the 3D models of the amphorae, while learning about their production and use for trade during the centuries. The application has been evaluated and the results are also discussed.

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Section: Virtual Museum Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a Virtual Museum for the Ancient Wine Trade in Eastern Mediterranean

Kazanis

Kontogianni

Chliverou

et al. 2017

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

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“…Finally, UDK and many other GEs have a built in support for stereoscopic displays and they also can be easily modified (like in Jacobson, 2002, andJuarez et al, 2010) to support complex immersive environments like CAVEs. Using GE to develop virtual environments for VH applications have proven to take almost half the effort than with traditional techniques, requiring a heavy programming effort especially for developing the necessary interaction support (Lepouras & Vassilakis, 2005). As for MR/AR applications, developing them usually requires:…”

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The Role of Computer Games Industry and Open Source Philosophy in the Creation of Affordable Virtual Heritage Solutions

Bottino¹,

Martina²

2010

New Trends in Technologies: Devices, Computer, Communication and Industrial Systems

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“…Lepuras and Vassilakis [LV05] note that state-of-the-art virtual environments are both costly to build and to maintain. In addition to generating virtual object models [Kes02,SW06], for example buildings and scenery, a developer must also manage support for user interaction [BKLP05,SH06], any environment and object behaviours that are required, for example collision detection, and any non-visual features of the virtual world, for example audio cues and haptic feedback [PBT02].…”

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“…Using computer games as the basis for virtual environment development has a number of advantages. Computer games are robust and extensively tested [LV05], both for usability and performance, work on off-the-shelf systems [RBFR03] and can be easily disseminated, for example via online communities. Many computer game developers support modification of their game environments by releasing level editors, for example to modify the game environment, and tools to edit the game behaviour.…”

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“…Therefore computer games can provide inexpensive state-of-the-art 3D virtual worlds that can be customised to experimental requirements in a short amount of time without extensive programming. This is a promising area of research that has already seen recent game technology used in a variety of virtual environment domains including context-aware system evaluation [BE01,OLMD07] [LV05].…”

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Computer game engines for developing first-person virtual environments

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Smith

2008

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Virtual museums for all: employing game technology for edutainment

Cited by 117 publications

References 13 publications

Developing a Virtual Museum for the Ancient Wine Trade in Eastern Mediterranean

Developing a Virtual Museum for the Ancient Wine Trade in Eastern Mediterranean

The Role of Computer Games Industry and Open Source Philosophy in the Creation of Affordable Virtual Heritage Solutions

Computer game engines for developing first-person virtual environments

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