Virtual Exhibitions
Technologies
3D on the web (Web 3D) is a powerful communication tool that can be harnessed to deliver advanced virtual exhibitions on your web site over the Internet. Our Virtual Exhibition technology powers the delivery of your virtual exhibitions by providing content management, publishing and visualisation tools for you to publish 3D enabled virtual expositions that are integrated with your existing website.
Virtual exhibition builder:
In the ARCO—Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects—project we have designed and developed a database driven content management system that includes tools for organising and storing your digital content and building virtual exhibitions by bringing your digital content together with our virtual exhibition templates designed for you that allow publishing of your virtual exhibition to the web as an integrated part of your existing web site. Click on the ARCO logo below to read a paper describing this technology.
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| ARCO—Virtual Museum Exhibitions |
Multimodal interfaces :
In the EPOCH—Excellence in Processing Cultural Heritage—project we have designed and developed a multimodal interface for interacting with digital heritage artefacts called VIRTEX. Multimodal access to museum artefacts can help the user to better understand and appreciate the objects and stories that the museum brings forward, but also creates a closer psychological bond between the user and his past. We use a 3 DOF orientation tracker with associated electronics embedded in a physical replica of the museum artefact to explore the story behind the actual artefact. Click on the EPOCH logo below to read a paper describing this technology.
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| VIRTEX—VIRTual EXhibitions |
Digitisation services:
Assuming you have invested in our ARCO system (virtual museum exhibition builder), or asked us to build you a Web 3d site, you will need to add 3D content. For this we recommend you invest in a decent 3D authoring package such as 3ds max. Current prices are about £2,695 for a commercial licence, click on the image below to look for resellers. You may be entitled to use an educational version, which is cheaper, depending on what your use is. We believe the educational version can also be used by charities. For simple models, we would recommend using 3DSOM Pro, again clik on the image below to find out more details and where to buy.
We can also digitise your content using our laser scanner and digitisation software. For small objects, and depending on complexity, we will use our Roland Picza 3D Laser Scanner or MicroScribe G2 desk top scanning systems. For objects that are not complicated or for large structures we can model from CAD drawings or measurements supplied by your surveyor—see the Olympiacos stadium or Fishbourne Roman Palace. We can use a variety of 3D authoring packages to develop your 3D models including, but not limited to, 3ds max and Maya—but note, if your project is non-educational (as defined by specific vendors educational use policies) then it is likley we will need to factor in commercial licencing costs. If you have lot's of 3D models to create for your virtual exhibition invest in a package like 3DSom is a good idea.
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| Roland Picza laser Scanner | MicroScribe-G2 | 3ds max | 3D Software Object Modeller |
Animations:
We are also able to provide a "RenderFarm" service for small animation projects. We have a small RenderFarm composed of some 30+ machines, but for larger animation jobs we would buy in a commercial render farm service. Your final animation can be post processed and encoded to varying formats, AVI, M-PEG or DVD-Video
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| RenderFarm |
Explore some of our virtual expositions by browsing this web site or to enquire about licensing our own technology, e.g. the ARCO system, using our services or for other help, please contact Virtual Expo Web: