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Developing immersive experience at Caistor Roman Town

在凯斯托罗马镇开发沉浸式体验

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R009953/1
负责人：
William Bowden
金额：
$ 7.66万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR009953%2F1
关键词：
Developing immersive experience Caistor Roman

项目摘要

This project (a partnership between the University of Nottingham, Jam Creative Studios and the Norfolk Archaeological Trust) will use the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum (Norfolk) to develop and evaluate new methods of site interpretation through the use of an immersive virtual reality experience. As a Roman town that did not see subsequent development in the medieval and later periods, Venta Icenorum is one of the UK's most significant archaeological sites and has been the subject of a major programme of geophysical survey and excavation by the University of Nottingham since 2006. In common with many archaeological sites, there are few visible remains at Venta and the site has limited infrastructure for visitors. A new site interpretation scheme created by the applicants in 2015 used a 3D reconstruction of the site viewed using an app for Android and Apple mobile devices and containing an Augmented Reality (AR) element that allowed users to view the ancient town against the present landscape.The 2015 AR model was the latest iteration of a long history of visualisation at Venta that started with painted reconstructions and moved on to a series of 3D reconstructions. All of these, however, were passive encounters for the viewer presenting a single interpretation of the site. The new project will create a more dynamic immersive experience in which the visitor will use their mobile device to interact with characters and animals within the town and experience the town in different weather and seasons. In this pilot project, the visitor will take a route from the South Gate to the forum of the Roman town and will be guided by one of the town's Roman residents in animated form who will show them points of interest. Their progress will trigger a series of events and interactions with other characters and animals and the user will hear the ambient sounds and speech of a town in Roman Britain and will see the sunlit town of previous reconstructions transformed into a winter townscape of mud, snow and smoke. In order to achieve the new project will address a series of technical challenges relating to the use of location-based AR in a fairly featureless landscape with variable GPS coverage by combining existing locational techniques with new markerless AR technologies with the aim of piloting scalable and transferable methods for delivering immersive experiences within open landscapes It will also evaluate the issue of optimizing VR and AR experiences to operate and be sustainable in a world of rapidly developing rival platforms and for on-site and off-site use. Using fully immersive VR on the site itself remains impractical for safety reasons but the rapid rise in affordable fully immersive VR technologies for use at home and in education means that potentially costly VR/AR models need to envisage multiple applications. The project will also address the interpretative challenges raised by creating speech, dress and physical appearance for a population known only from archaeological evidence. A process of evaluation will rigorously evaluate audience responses to this new experience to inform its future development. Finally the project will further develop the existing partnership between the University of Nottingham, Jam Creative Studio (who are pioneering innovative approaches to heritage interpretation using new technologies) and the Norfolk Archaeological Trust (who own and manage a range of heritage sites across Norfolk).

该项目（诺丁汉大学、Jam创意工作室和诺福克考古信托基金会之间的合作伙伴关系）将利用罗马城镇Venta Icenorum（诺福克）的遗址，通过使用沉浸式虚拟现实体验来开发和评估遗址解释的新方法。作为一个在中世纪和后期没有看到后续发展的罗马城镇，Venta Icenorum是英国最重要的考古遗址之一，自2006年以来一直是诺丁汉大学地球物理调查和挖掘的主要项目的主题。与许多考古遗址一样，文塔几乎没有可见的遗迹，该遗址的基础设施也有限。申请人在2015年创建的一个新的网站解释方案使用了使用Android和Apple移动的设备的应用程序查看的网站的3D重建，并包含增强现实（AR）2015年的AR模型是Venta悠久的可视化历史的最新版本，从绘画重建开始，然后继续发展一系列的3D重建然而，所有这些都是被动的遭遇，为观众提供了对该网站的单一解释。新项目将创造一个更具活力的沉浸式体验，游客将使用他们的移动终端与城镇内的人物和动物互动，并在不同的天气和季节体验城镇。在这个试点项目中，游客将从南门到罗马城的广场，并将由罗马城的一位罗马居民以动画形式引导，他将向他们展示兴趣点。他们的进展将触发一系列事件以及与其他角色和动物的互动，用户将听到罗马不列颠一个城镇的环境声音和语音，并将看到以前重建的阳光明媚的城镇变成了泥，雪和烟雾的冬季城镇景观。为了实现新的项目将解决一系列有关使用位置的技术挑战-通过将现有的定位技术与新的无标记AR技术相结合，在具有可变GPS覆盖范围的相当无特征的景观中基于AR，目的是在开放的景观中提供沉浸式体验的可扩展和可转移的方法。在竞争平台迅速发展的世界中，以及在现场和非现场使用中，出于安全原因，在现场使用完全沉浸式VR仍然是不切实际的，但在家庭和教育中使用的负担得起的完全沉浸式VR技术的快速增长意味着潜在的昂贵VR/AR模型需要考虑多种应用。该项目还将解决为一个仅从考古证据中了解的人口创造语言、服装和外表所带来的解释挑战。评估过程将严格评估受众对这一新体验的反应，以告知其未来的发展。最后，该项目将进一步发展诺丁汉大学、Jam创意工作室（他们正在利用新技术开创遗产解释的创新方法）和诺福克考古信托基金（他们拥有并管理诺福克各地的一系列遗产遗址）之间的现有合作关系。