Heritage Key present two days of events this weekend to help you ease into you Heritage Key Virtual experience, including guided tours and skills workshops. Details are as follows:
10am - 12am London Time (GMT), Saturday and Sunday: Tour
The tour starts off the welcome area - please register and make your way there. If you are an already registered user then find one of the Heritage Key staff in the welcome area - she will be your guide for the two hours and can answer any questions you might have.
2pm - 4pm London Time (GMT), Saturday and Sunday: Sneak Preview
Find one of our Heritage Key Staff at the sneak preview area. She will be happy to help you with registration and any questions you might have. She will also teach you new skills that will make your virtual experience all the better.
6pm - 10 pm London Time (GMT), Saturday and Sunday:Sneak Preview
Find one of our Heritage Key Staff at the sneak preview area. She will be happy to help you with registration and any questions you might have. She will also teach you new skills that will make your virtual experience all the better.
Singer-songwriter Thumper Boucher will perform a show live and for free in Heritage Key Virtual, at the Valley of the Kings.
A former major label artist for EMI/SBK and Arista records - real name Darrell Phillips - he's currently signed to Bieler Bros, and records with his RL band Dirtywormz. Thumper writes, records, produces and masters all of his own music. The bass is his main instrument, but he also plays a mean guitar and keyboard too, and has a unique vocal style.
Please join us on Saturday 6th of March in the Welcome area of Heritage Key at 6pm London time for two hours of Live DJ music. Dreams Lightcloud will be our wonderful DJ with her unique playlist and will be there to host for two hours of fun. If you are already a registered to Heritage Key please use the following link to meet us directly in the Welcome Area. Don't worry if you are not registered but would like to join us then please follow the easy steps and create your avatar now. Once you are a registered avatar then you can use our Link here Welcome Area
Of course, you can invite your friends always better when we are plenty ; the more the merrier . Just email or send them the Heritage Key so they also can create their avatar and join in the fun. Before and after the DJ event you can also wander around and check out Virtual King Tut, Virtual Stonehenge or go and customise your avatar. So there is a lot to do come and join us for two hours of Music fun.
Please join us on Sunday 7th of March in the Welcome area of Heritage Key at 7pm London time for two hours of Live DJ music. Prad will be our wonderful DJ with his unique playlist and will be there to host for two hours of fun . If you are already a registered to Heritage Key please use the following link to meet us directly in the Welcome Area . Don't worry if you are not registered but would like to join us then please follow the easy steps and create your avatar now . Once you are a registered avatar then you can use our Link here Welcome Area
Of course, you can invite your friends always better when we are plenty ; the more the merrier . Just email or send them the Heritage Key so they also can create their avatar and join in the fun. Before and after the DJ event you can also wander around and check out Virtual King Tut , Virtual Stonehenge or go and customise your avatar . So there is a lot to do come and join us for two hours of Music fun
Museums from Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece have joined hands - and virtual artefacts - to create the first 'Virtual Museum of European Roots'. They have put their most treasured objects online in 3D for visitors to explore in several thematic routes, as they are guided through European prehistoric culture and heritage. For museum professionals, there are e-courses, training them in the skills needed for establishing and managing a virtual museum.
Saudi Arabia inaugurated its King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) last week. This new campus - holding just 400 students - on the Red Sea contains some very impressive visualisation facilities at KAUST which were prototyped in Calit2's VirtuLab at UC San Diego.
Archaeologist Tom Levy - Professor at the University of California and Associate Director of Calit2’s Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) - demonstrated how he can use CORNEA and the StarCAVE to explore a 3,000-year-old dig site in southern Jordan, complete with sound effects that imitate the actual sound of descending deep into an excavated shaft where the archaeologist found artifacts (represented in CORNEA at the precise geographic locations and depths where they were excavated). These are my two favourite videos from the 'displays and VR systems for archaeology' demonstration.
Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures of the Aztecs, thanks to one professor's research into the ancient architecture that served as the center stage of Aztec ceremonial life, combined with an ultra-modern electronic digital modeling process.
Antonio Serrato-Combe, professor of architecture at the University of Utah, has spent decades bringing the ancient structures of the Aztecs into focus. His work is now the basis for a new British Museum exhibition 'Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler,' exploring the power and empire of the last elected Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma II.
Submitted by Bija Knowles on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 08:53
A team of software developers in the United States has come up with an algorithm that can construct virtual 3D models of cities, monuments and the interiors of buildings by using the photos available on public photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr. The first city they chose to model was Rome - as mentioned here.
Submitted by Bija Knowles on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 16:43
Less than 24 hours is all your need to build Rome these days: a team of developers from the University of Washington and Cornell University has come up with an algorithm that can aggregate thousands of tourist photos from social network photo-sharing websites and create a three-dimensional virtual city model from them.
Highly popular tourist sites such as Rome work well – currently there are more than two million photos of Rome on Flickr. The Washington University team has also used its technology to recreate the cities of Venice and Dubrovnik.
Museums from Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece have joined hands - and virtual artefacts - to create the first 'Virtual Museum of European Roots'. They have put their most treasured objects online in 3D for visitors to explore in several thematic routes, as they are guided through European prehistoric culture and heritage. For museum professionals, there are e-courses, training them in the skills needed for establishing and managing a virtual museum.
Saudi Arabia inaugurated its King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) last week. This new campus - holding just 400 students - on the Red Sea contains some very impressive visualisation facilities at KAUST which were prototyped in Calit2's VirtuLab at UC San Diego.
Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures of the Aztecs, thanks to one professor's research into the ancient architecture that served as the center stage of Aztec ceremonial life, combined with an ultra-modern electronic digital modeling process.
A team of software developers in the United States has come up with an algorithm that can construct virtual 3D models of cities, monuments and the interiors of buildings by using the photos available on public photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr. The first city they chose to model was 
Less than 24 hours is all your need to build 
