Relocation of Perm Gates

Saving and virtually relocating an endangered art object from Perm to Prague using photogrammetry and augmented reality.

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Inspiration

We at VRtistry.tech are inspired by the new technologies and possibilities.

What it is

Perm Gates is an art project by Nikolai Polissky, which greets visitors and citizens of Perm, but is going to be demolished due to its age and road construction. We saved it for Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM). We took an attempt of saving and virtually relocating an endangered art object from Perm to Prague using photogrammetry and AR.

How we built it

We took around 2000 photos from the ground and with a drone, then developed them in Lightroom. We loaded them into RealityCapture for 3D reconstruction, when it was finished we simplified and exported the resulting model as GLB. After that we loaded the model into Adobe Aero, placed it in Prague and shot the result.

Challenges we ran into

Flying the drone in city centre was quite a challenge. Adobe Aero is quite a challenge too!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We found nobody saved art objects in such a way, we are the first! The model also turned out pretty good.

What we learned

Everything is possible.

What's next for us

Scan more art, architectural and industrial heritage and work more with AR and VR.

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