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British government backs VR museums platform with £5.6m in funding

A £5.6m (US$6.8m, €6.4m) project to develop a virtual reality museum platform has been unveiled.






A £5.6m (US$6.8m, €6.4m) project to develop a virtual reality museum platform has been unveiled.

The Museums in the Metaverse project is hoped to allow both professionals and amateurs to become “virtual curators”, building virtual and mixed-reality environments which can include 3D-scanned objects from collections.

Online visitors will then be able to visit these spaces via a VR headset from anywhere in the world.



The project is based in the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts & Humanities, and is funded by the UK Government’s... More from Museums and Heritage


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British government backs VR museums platform with £5.6m in funding

A £5.6m (US$6.8m, €6.4m) project to develop a virtual reality museum platform has been unveiled.






A £5.6m (US$6.8m, €6.4m) project to develop a virtual reality museum platform has been unveiled.

The Museums in the Metaverse project is hoped to allow both professionals and amateurs to become “virtual curators”, building virtual and mixed-reality environments which can include 3D-scanned objects from collections.

Online visitors will then be able to visit these spaces via a VR headset from anywhere in the world.



The project is based in the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts & Humanities, and is funded by the UK Government’s... More from Museums and Heritage


 



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