Lab In Virtuo

Project funded by the French National Research Agency, led by Ronan Querrec.

Abstract

Augmented and collaborative virtual reality enables us to go beyond traditional approaches to the history and heritage of industrial landscapes, and develop innovative research methods and practices. These improve, qualitatively and quantitatively, the explicitness of data and knowledge, thanks to a realistic 3D virtual environment and an approach favoring participative and collaborative science. The Intelligent Virtual Environment (IVE), developed in our work, constitutes an In Virtuo Laboratory that integrates an incremental knowledge base, fed by the collection of knowledge produced in the IVE and by the constitution of digital reference corpora (primary sources, secondary sources, artifacts, etc.). It is based on the alignment of three meta-models: Any-artefact (a meta-model of human activity in the history of techniques), Any-artefact-O (an associated ontology designed as an extension of CIDOC-CRM) and MASCARET (an activity meta-model for VR developed at CERV).

People involved

Intern

Lucas Bernin

Lucas Bernin is a Master student in computer science at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, specializing in multi-agent systems and virtual or augmented reality. As part of his internship, he worked on an augmented reality application to provide an on-site visualization of the old Brest’s swing bridge.

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