Metaverse Museums Represent a New Frontier Where You Can Create Your Virtual Collection
The University of Glasgow / Museums in the Metaverse Pictured L to r Lynn Verschuren , Professor Maria Economou , Dr Neil McDonnell and Dr Pauline Mackay and in The Huntarian Museum
Photograph by Martin Shields Tel 07572 457000 © Martin Shields
An ambitious new £5.6 million project to develop Virtua Reality museums was officially unveiled today.
The Museums in the Metaverse project – funded by the UK Government’s Innovation Accelerator programme, led by Innovate UK on behalf of UK Research and Innovation – builds on Scotland’s reputation for cultural regeneration and innovation by creating a ground-breaking Extended Reality (XR)* Culture and Heritage platform.
One side of the platform is for visitors to gain access to a rich array of museums, sites, objects, and novel and dynamic experiences. The other is for virtual curators to build enriching and entertaining storytelling using objects and virtual environments that have never been placed together in the real world.
The project will empower online visitors to explore vast cultural assets in engaging new ways; enable expert and novice curators to create new content; and explore models of use to support sustainable economic and cultural growth.
It will harness the University of Glasgow’s global reputation for research in digital cultural heritage and XR, together with key cultural heritage and immersive technology partners, to develop an innovative solution to constraints that can limit physical museum exhibitions to less than 10% of the objects held in collections, and limit audience reach by cost, distance, and accessibility.
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