World16 - Historic Bastikaya District VR

We are utilizing UC/win-Road to recreate terrain patches from across the geographic zones of the United Arab Emirates and to integrate video, audio, photographic, and illustrative assets exploring and explaining the spatial dimensions of the material and immaterial culture of the country to complement the models and animated figures created by Thomas Tucker and his students at Winston Salem State University, John Kelly and his students at Forsyth Tech, and Paula Hindman and her students at Piedmont Community College over the last year. Where previously we sought to understand how to build and integrate 3-dimensional models based on examples of traditional architecture, we are re-focusing on how to apply VR software as a presentation tool and how to better utilize the design skills of our students to communicate information on cultural practices and history within the digital space of our VR reconstructions.

This represents a new functional direction for the software. We are currently building a body of assets at Zayed University in Dubai on traditional music, craft, farming, animal husbandry and the inter-relationships between social organization, economic activities, and environment. We foresee the possible applications of this sort of VR presentation as primarily educational and are particularly interested in utilizing the driving simulator within a museum context.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• virtual reality
• history
• preservation
• multimedia
• exhibit display
• student participation
• 3D technology