The Museum of Pure Form: touching real statues in an immersive virtual museum

Loscos, C.; Tecchia, F.; Frisoli, A.; Carrozzino, M.; Widenfeld, H. Ritter; Swapp, D.; Bergamasco, M.

The Museum of Pure Form: touching real statues in an immersive virtual museum

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Date

2004

Authors

Loscos, C.
Tecchia, F.
Frisoli, A.
Carrozzino, M.
Widenfeld, H. Ritter
Swapp, D.
Bergamasco, M.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In the Museum of Pure Form, we explore a novel way of presenting art to visitors of a museum, allowing them to virtually touch artefacts in a virtual museum. In order to realise this the statues are first digitised with a scanner so that they can be placed in a virtual museum. The virtual museum is then displayed on a 3D stereo screen. The visitor uses a purpose-built two-contact-point haptic device, mounted on an exoskeleton, to explore the shape of a piece of art which the visitor would otherwise be forbidden to touch in a conventional museum. We have tested such an installation in a CAVE-like system. The results show that the users are in favour of using a haptic device in this context.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:VAST/VAST04/271-279
,
booktitle = {VAST 2004: The 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
},
editor = {Y. Chrysanthou and K. Cain and N. Silberman and F. Niccolucci
},
title = {{The Museum of Pure Form: touching real statues in an immersive virtual museum
}},
author = {Loscos, C. and 
Tecchia, F. and 
Frisoli, A. and 
Carrozzino, M. and 
Widenfeld, H. Ritter and 
Swapp, D. and 
Bergamasco, M.
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1811-864X
},
ISBN = {3-905673-18-5
},
DOI = {10.2312/VAST/VAST04/271-279
}
}