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There was bright sunshine on Thursday 15 October when Exeter Cathedral welcomed RedBalloon Productions and their cameras, from Bournemouth University. With the help of the University of Exeter team, the aim was to use image to explain the importance of VISTA tools at this historic site. A full day of filming during which the Dean, […]

On November 4-6, 2020, Cristina Mosconi and Dr Pikakshi Manchanda of the University of Exeter attended the 25th annual conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT 2020). Traditionally hosted in Vienna, this year for the first time in its long history, the conference was held virtually. Despite its virtual location, the conference was attended […]

After receiving an award in 2018 for the best article published at the Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents in Beijing, Bournemouth University was chosen to host the 33rd edition of CASA virtually this autumn. Despite the apprehensions about the preparation and running of this first online edition, the event was in the end […]

As access to sites was limited due to the coronavirus, the tests to evaluate the VISTA devices could not be implemented. Our partners from Fougères therefore produced a video to reveal through images what the castle would look like with RA/RV technology. See here in images, the Fantastic Château de Fougères in the time of […]

Remote meetings have become commonplace over the past few months. But what happens when participants do not speak the same language? In the context of the France Channel England project, the assistance of an interpreter is sometimes necessary, especially for long sessions. Until the beginning of 2020, VISTA partners used to gather around the same […]

In these uncertain times, cultural heritage sites could do a lot worse than invest in membership of an umbrella organisation. This article focuses on the Association for Heritage Interpretation, but other organisations we are in contact with are listed at the bottom. There are several benefits to membership: for a relatively small sum, you can […]

A key component of the VISTA AR vision is to provide cultural heritage sites with rich insights into the visitor experience, such as: • Where do visitors go: which parts of the site do they spend the most time in and which parts are less visited. Why? • How do visitors feel about different aspects […]

The Lorient Underwater Museum has joined the VISTAAR adventure as a deployment site. Within this framework, various subjects are the subject of numerical modelling. Thus, Christophe Cérino, Director of the Museum and a fine connoisseur of his subject, is working closely with the Bournemouth University team in order to design the most historically accurate models […]

VISTA’s teams have been working for several months with our partner from the South West Coast Path on a visual reconstruction of what Slapton Sands – Torcross site – should look like by the end of the century, if sea levels continue to rise at this rate, focusing on two key moments in the future: […]