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3D e-learning In the news Projects 2006-2009

Museums and Immersive Environments

There was an interesting article on the BBC recently that looked at how new technologies (specifically immersive environments using avatars, such as Second Life), are changing the way we interact with cultural artifacts (such as art and music).  Furthermore, Bill Thompson, the articles author, points out that these environments are changing the very way such […]

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3D Audio-Visual Jisc digitisation programmes

You Spin Me Round – Record Players Exhibition

As well as digitising several thousand sound files, the British Library Archival Sound Recordings project has made multiple digital images of record and music players from its artefacts collections. This includes gramophones from the 1890s right up to Sony cassette decks from the 1970s. The players have been photographed from multiple angles, allowing for the […]