E-MUSE Blog: developing immersive museums
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They interviewed us
We were interviewed by StoryTime, which is itself an interesting initiative to promote business and professionals in Emilia-Romagna. They were really friendly, and really put us at ease, which is not easy, we’re a skittish bunch 😀
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New Creative Commons initiative for Cultural Heritage
Creative Commons just launched the new TAROCH initiative, which is closely aligned with our goals. Go read the founding declaration: https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/
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Radio Interview, and how to download embedded audio from iOS
On Tuesday (2024-10-29) we were interviewed by Story Time, and we broadcast on Radio Canale Italia yesterday. The interviewer was truly great, and everyone was simultaneously very friendly and very professional, we’d recommend them to anyone looking to promote their activity. In about a week we’ll be given the video and we’ll be able to…
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Unsurprising legal case on commercial use of cultural heritage
This case https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/bologna-court-of-appeal-confirms-that.html is consistent with the Italian legislation. We hold that no image right should hold in perpetuity, and we really don’t understand which principle the Italian legislation is upholding. The simplest interpretation is that they think that they will create profits for cultural heritage institutions, which certainly could use funding. It doesn’t seem…
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Tech tip: recover from “ERROR MOOV atom not found”
Today we had to give a video presentation for the technically unannounced BCC Arte & Cultura project, and that involved a whole lot of Blender animation renders. One of them, a long one that took hours in Cycles, crashed at the very end. We were exporting in mp4 format, which is easy to import in…
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Go read: “Secret 3D Scans in the French Supreme Court”
We’ve just read this post by the brilliant Cosmo Wenman of Concept Realizations. The cause is near and dear to us, doubly so because it involves Rodin’s The Thinker, which we have remixed for the BCC Innovation Festival. What we genuinely cannot understand is how people opposing the free distribution of our cultural heritage think…
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WebXR is now supported on all major browsers
With the visionOS2 release Safari gains webXR support
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Preparing immersive media for the Festival Day
In one week our work on the BCC Innovation Festival will culminate in an hybrid event, whose physical manifestation will be held in the Salone delle Colonne: an impressive looking immersive room in Rome’s EUR district. We are tasked with producing audiovisual material that shows off our immersive experiences in a context that is still…
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BCC Innovation World
The other large project we’ve been working on for the past few month is the immersive component of BCC Innovation Festival, the startup festival held by BCC ICCREA. This is a very large conglomerate of what are basically Credit Unions, when translating it into English. Immersive identity The concept developed by our clients’ communications department…
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Tip: use Tree to generate HTML directory listings
Part of our job in the BCC Arte & Cultura project is to provide the “high fidelity” visualizations for each artwork. For some that means one of our 3D scans, for others it’s simply a zoomable interface. Our clients are making a “standard” website and simply linking to our server for the high fidelity version.…
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