VIRTUE (VIRTUal Exhibition hall) (Ongoing)
The digitization of museum exhibits has raised the question of how to make these objects accessible, particularly in light of the ever growing collections being available. The VIRTUE (VIRTUal Exhibition hall) project allows curators to easily set up virtual museum exhibitions of static and dynamic 2D (paintings, photographs, videos, etc.) and 3D artifacts. Visitors may navigate through the virtual rooms, inspect the artifacts and interact with them in novel ways.
An early prototype of the system was developed at the Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2018 and won the "Brand new" prize. During the Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2019, VIRTUE was extended to allow the enhancement of virtual objects by tracking tactile physical counterparts and audio playback when approaching relevant art or photographs. The system has also been used very successfully at the Museumsnacht and at Fantasy Basel 2019 and 2021. The full VIRTUE source code is available as open source on GitHub.
Since
01.10.2018
Staff
- Heiko Schuldt
- Ralph Gasser
- Loris Sauter
- Rahel Arnold
- Florian Spiess
- Ivan Giangreco
- Luca Rossetto
- Silvan Heller
- Mahnaz Parian-Scherb
- Milan van Zanten
- Simon Peterhans
- Gowthaman Gobalasingam
- Timo Castelberg
- Merwin Mudavamkunnel
Research Topics
Publications
2022
- Simon Peterhans, Loris Sauter, Florian Spiess, Heiko Schuldt
Automatic Generation of Coherent Image Galleries in Virtual Reality
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL ‘22), Padua, Italy 2022/9
2020
- Samuel Börlin, Ralph Gasser, Florian Spiess, Heiko Schuldt
3D Model Retrieval Using Constructive Solid Geometry in Virtual Reality
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality (AIVR 2020), Utrecht, The Netherlands (held virtually) 2020/12
2019
- Ivan Giangreco, Loris Sauter, Mahnaz Amiri Parian, Ralph Gasser, Silvan Heller, Luca Rossetto, Heiko Schuldt
VIRTUE — A Virtual Reality Museum Experience
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’19), Los Angeles, CA, USA 2019/3