Extending Physical Collections Into the Virtual Space of a Digital Dome

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dc.contributor.authorHandron, Kerryen_US
dc.contributor.authorJacobson, Jeffreyen_US
dc.contributor.editorAlessandro Artusi and Morwena Joly and Genevieve Lucet and Denis Pitzalis and Alejandro Ribesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-01T16:05:16Z
dc.date.available2014-02-01T16:05:16Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Earth Theater at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Carnegie MNH) in Pittsburgh is an all-digital partial dome display, an immersive theater. Our current offerings include an Egyptian temple, a virtual dinosaur exhibit, a Seneca Village, and a simulated Ant Mound. Each one is a three-dimensional virtual world, which a docent can navigate at will while providing a guided tour. Each virtual world is thematically tied to one of the physical collections at the museum, effectively extending it into virtual space. To produce these shows, the CMNH has collaborated with PublicVR (a Boston area non-profit) and the Art Institutes (Pittsburgh and Boston), a chain of colleges in the electronic arts. Under PublicVR's supervision, students from the Art Institutes earn course and internship credit making artifacts for the environments (Egypt) or the entire environment itself (Seneca and Ant Mound).en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationVAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short and Project Papersen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905673-76-0en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST10S/057-061en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): J.5 [Computer Applications]: Arts and Humanities- Arts, fine and performingen_US
dc.titleExtending Physical Collections Into the Virtual Space of a Digital Domeen_US
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