ViStA Project
ViStA Project: A Virtual World Orientation for Overseas Students While starting life in a new university may be an exciting prospect for many students, it… Read More »ViStA Project
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600th Anniversary Graduation Week
The 3D reconstruction of St Andrews cathedral proved very popular at the University Food For Thought event yesterday. The event was organised as part of the university’s… Read More »600th Anniversary Graduation Week
Cathedral Reconstruction in the News
Look out for the Open Virtual Worlds Cathedral reconstruction in the BBC Scotland news, University News and in the Courier!
ITS 2012 Key-Note Speaker
Colin will be giving a key-note speech “Open Virtual Worlds for Exploratory Learning” at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems in Crete on Saturday.
Pleasure Palace of the Royal Stewarts Revisited
Linlithgow palace was the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots and was once lived in by successive Stewart kings. The preserved monument of the Royal… Read More »Pleasure Palace of the Royal Stewarts Revisited
PGNET 2012 & ICCCN 2012
Chris’s paper, Virtual Time Windows: Applying Cross Reality to Cultural Heritage has been accepted at The 13th Annual Post Graduate Symposium on the Convergence of… Read More »PGNET 2012 & ICCCN 2012
Successful SELF bid
A proposed collaborative project between Open Virtual Worlds in Computer Science, Special Collections and Art History called Flexible Access to Medieval Books (FAB) has been… Read More »Successful SELF bid
Heritage of Scotland’s Coast
Ongoing collaboration with SCAPE to create virtual sites from 3D Point Cloud data. Work has started on developing methods of transferring the detailed archaeological data… Read More »Heritage of Scotland’s Coast
Secret Lives of Medieval Books
An interesting article was published in the University News yesterday, looking at how the physical interaction people had with medieval books can offer an insight… Read More »Secret Lives of Medieval Books