Kollmar & Jourdan House Pforzheim, Exterior view building, Seat Technical Museum of Pforzheim's jewellery and watchmaking industries

VES

Virtual Exhibition Space for Technical Historical Objects

Backround

Thanks to the powerful and affordable extended reality (XR)-enabled (e.g., smartphones, tablets, virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) glasses) now available on the market, access to XR technologies is no longer just a privilege for large companies or research facilities, but also for ordinary consumers who can use XR applications flexibly in terms of time and location. Technology museums, for example, can digitize their exhibits and make them available to the public in the form of immersive and interactive virtual web applications. This achieves a high audience reach and facilitates participation in cultural life, especially in countries with limited or weak cultural infrastructure, such as the partner countries involved in the project.

Contact

Project manager
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fahmi Bellalouna

Phone: +49 (0)721 925-1862
fahmi.bellalounaspam prevention@h-ka.de

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Destination

Through the use of AR and the implementation of AR applications for the digitization of historical objects with technical relevance, the digitization possibilities will be expanded and their potentials demonstrated in cooperation with technology museums from Germany, Malaysia, Oman and Tunisia. AR is the Technology that augments the physical world with computer-generated, perceptual digital objects to enable an interactive user experience in the real world.

Procedure

Selection and digitization of 4 historical objects with technical relevance (1 per partner country) Model recognition and tracking functions will be implemented in the AR applications so that the historical objects can be identified from simple 2D images. Once the historical object is recognized, the virtual 3D object will be projected into the real space. In addition, visitors to the technology museum will be shown user functions and graphical animations to explore the historical object in a virtual, realistic and interactive way. The focus is on the use of smartphones.

Implementation

Four inter-university student teams will be formed to implement the project. Each team consists of 3 students and one junior researcher from the different partner countries, so that an intensive, intercultural collaboration is promoted. The students will work directly with the historical experts of each museum to ensure that the object is digitized in a historically accurate manner. During the project period, 1-week workshops are planned in the respective partner countries.