Funded Projects 2014-2020
Project STRATUS
| Project Acronym | STRATUS |
|---|---|
| Project Title | Pushing the Limits of VR in Cultural and Natural Heritage |
| Project subsite |
Summary
Connecting with emergent digital tech and changing digital literacies is key to re-energising our towns, villages and communities. Stratus will use disruptive VR technologies to enable exploration of the Past, Present and Future, maximising societal benefits from natural and cultural heritage. In Stratus VR will be used to enhance the visitor experience, help direct the flows of visitors and inform policy.
STRATUS will push the limits of VR today with the goal of enabling its potential to be realised in the future. It will develop VR solutions that enhance and integrate exploration of cultural and natural heritage. This will bring together real-world media (aerial, 360, 3D and stereoscopic) with virtual world media enabling new perspectives on natural and cultural heritage to enrich onsite experiences and inform digital narratives. The partnership will design collaborative heritage VR where multiple users communicate within the same Virtual Environment, mixing onsite and offsite participants and using VR to connect together cultural and natural heritage sites both enhancing experience and managing flows of visitors (Wild Atlantic Way).
STRATUS will use a practice based approach developing solutions within use cases in doing so we will push the limits of VR. We will hold partner meetings in Iceland, Scotland and Ireland. We will hold workshops in Ireland and Norway.
Narrative will connect with history, science and myth, we will address climate change and threats to heritage and address how VR can enrich both informal and formal educational scenarios. STRATUS will make it easy for domain specialists to contribute to VR solutions by developing toolkits as well as encouraging technology transfer and spread as transnational knowledge exchange.
Objectives
To use VR to enhance visits to sites that offer combined significance in Natural & Cultural Heritage. The partnership will work initially with the Downpatrick Head site in County Mayo, Ireland. It will then look to enhance the experience.
To link together attractions along the wild atlantic way route, providing tourists with a connected experience, using VR to connect these sites and other sites within the NPA region.
To create a multi-user VR platform that will be transferrable across many sites across the NPA region.
Lead Partner
- Mayo County Council
Ireland
Danny O'Toole
phone +353 876502841
e-mail: dotoole@mayococo.ie
Partners
- Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute
Iceland - Mayo County Council
Ireland - The University Court of the University of St Andrews
UK - Ulster University, Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Project Info
| Theme Tourism, recreation, cultural heritage, languages |
| Priority 4 Natural and Cultural Heritage |
| Objective 4 Increased capacity for sustainable environmental management |
| Project duration 31-12-19 to 29-06-21 |
| Total budget 153 773 EUR |
| NPA co-financing 99 202 EUR |
| Target groups local public authority regional public authority sectoral agency General public infrastructure and (public) service provider education/training centre and school higher education and research enterprise, including SME business support organisation |
| Joint Secretariat Desk Officer Rachel Burn |