The Economist is collaborating with Project Mosul, a group dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage, in using virtual reality (VR) to reconstruct the historical sites and artefacts from Iraq’s Mosul Museum, which was destroyed by the Islamic State.
The initiative, RecoVR Mosul: A collective reconstruction, will be part of the Learning Technologies Exhibition in Olympia and uses crowd-sourced imagery to digitally reconstruct the heritage that has been destroyed from the Museum.
VR headsets provided to viewers of the exhibition will showcase the antiquities from Mosul, accompanied by a voiceover that takes the visitor through years of history.
According to archaeologists, Iraq’s Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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