British Museum uses virtual reality to explore Bronze Age objects
The Samsung Digital Learning Managers from the Schools and Young Audiences Team have been working with Dr Neil Wilkin, Curator of the European Bronze Age collection at the British Museum. They employed the skills of Soluis Heritage who specialise in presenting heritage architecture through CGI visuals and animation (you might have seen them at the M+H Show earlier this year).
Together they have created a virtual Bronze Age-style round house, complete with burning fire, authentic atmospheric sounds and incorporated 3D scanned representations of British Museum objects from that period including a Sussex Loop, and a ceremonial Beaune dirk.
Visitors to a virtual reality weekend held in the great Court of The British Museum on 8 and 9 August were able to explore the round house and objects using Samsung Gear VR headsets, as well as on Samsung tablets and via an immersive dome.
“People in the Middle Bronze Age tended to deposit their metalwork and other precious objects away from their settlements, so this experience gives us the rare opportunity to put them back in their original settings.”
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