UPDATE 1/31/2017 This project won first place for the 1st Open Context and Carleton University Prize for Archaeological Visualization!
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Project Pitch for SeattleVR Hackathon IV (Sept. 16-18, 2016)
Description
VRchaeology is an interactive visualization of artifact data from OpenContext. Artifacts are "buried" underneath the ground according to the provenience data. Users move around the environment by using the pressing the controller trackpad, aiming where they wish to go, and releasing the trackpad to teleport to the targeted location. Users can excavate these artifacts by moving the Vive controller up and down over the ground surface.
GitHub Repository
Team
- Russell Alleen-Willems
- Mader Bradley
- Jeanpierre Chery
- Aileen McGraw
- Tania Pav
- Jami Schwarzwalder
- Paul Schwarzwalder
Inspiration
OpenContext, a non-profit project who publish datasets from archaeology, are hosting a data challenge to find novel uses of their API to inspire folks to use the data for research, teaching, computation, or even creativity (Check out their short "About Us" video here, it's pretty funny). I'd like to experiment and discover what kinds of tools in VR would make these datasets more useful to all kinds of audiences!
Challenge Description
http://ux.opencontext.org/2016/06/20/open-context-carleton-prize-for-archaeological-visualization/
Resources
OpenContext hosts a number of large datasets from archaeological sites around the world. The materials include artifacts from historic periods, as well as prehistoric periods and their records include physical and qualitative descriptions as well as rich media like images, audio, and video. Many of the records have excavation provenience and so representations of these items could be positioned in 3D space.
OpenContext API
Built With
- json
- json-ld
- rdf
- vr
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