CFPs for May 2020
I have not checked all of these calls for papers but many have moved online, some now offer free registration, but I am not sure how they will be run. *START* DUE CONF THEME LOCATION 1/09/20 24/05/20...
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I’m drafting up ideas for a book explaining how philosophical topics can be approached in university classrooms using virtual reality and computer games. A side aim is to investigate whether VR can...
View ArticleVisiting Europe
dear EU colleagues, I expect to be a visiting Professor in North Italy near the end of 2020 with a generously open calendar (not booked yet) so if you’d like me to visit please drop a line..
View ArticleRethinking Virtual Places
I have written a book on the above which looks like (touch wood) will go into production. I have about 30 images in the planned book but am wondering if I can or should place there an image (8×11...
View ArticleVR travel and tour apps
The Financial Times has published an article entitled “Could this be the moment virtual-reality travel finally takes off?” (You may have to answer a survey to read the article): “The cartoonish game is...
View ArticleABC Radio interview today (and online)
Today I talk to Andrea Gibbs on the ABC national radio “Weekends” show about virtual travel/tourism 12.10 midday in WA (AWST) or 2PM AEST (eastern states of Australia)...
View ArticleVirtual Heritage Multimodality
There are all sorts of interesting VR suits and gloves (or simpler assistive devices), olfactory and haptic-based devices (and even location-based audio augmented reality using headphones) now...
View ArticleUNESCO Chair report 2016-2020
The four years is not up yet but UNESCO asks for a report on the last day of May (the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Visualisation and Heritage finishes 31 August). These figures may change tomorrow slightly...
View ArticleArt History, Heritage Games, and Virtual Reality chapter
Traditionally, art history has been viewed as a concern about the context of creation, curation, critique, and classifi cation of art, but its range and focus is seldom agreed on. A conventional view...
View ArticleA note to readers
This is a personal website that has archived or commented on my research and interests in virtual heritage, serious games, virtual places, and so on. It is not owned by any university and eventually I...
View ArticleThe Philosophy in the Computing
I just received an article submission back with major revisions required. For a computing related journal. I actually appreciated the comments but that is not the point of the post. What struck me was...
View ArticleUNESCO Chair PhD student wins a best paper award!
Mr Ikrom Nishanbaev has won best paper award! A Cloud Architecture for Processing and Visualization of 3D Geo-located Cultural Heritage Models (https://doi.org/10.5220/0009341500510061) (won the best...
View ArticleAustralian Research Council Grants
Below are the 3 Australian Research Council grants I am currently a Chief Investigator on. The information is publicly available on the ARC website. LE190100019 — The University of Newcastle...
View ArticleVirtual Heritage book
Hello, with eight authors for eight chapters I am proposing a concise guide on virtual heritage to publishers. I believe I have been allowed UNESCO chair/Curtin funding to pay publishing open access...
View ArticleVirtual Archaeology Review journal (recommended)
Dr Hafizur Rahaman and I will soon have an article on virtual /digital 3D heritage repositories published at open-access journal Virtual Archaeology Review – they have interesting articles in press I...
View ArticleAssociation with ANU
CDHRE-ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research today offered me a 5 year honorary professorship. I’d just like to thank them for their support (and thanks to my referees). It is a formal process but...
View ArticleConference paper out (short paper) DHN2020
The Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2020 conference was postponed but papers published online: Arthur, Paul Longley, Erik Champion, Hugh Craig, Ning Gu, Mark Harvey, Victoria Haskins, Andrew...
View ArticleArticle on virtual travel and tourism published
https://theconversation.com/antarctica-without-windchill-the-louvre-without-queues-how-to-travel-the-world-from-home-140174
View ArticleA stable directory of great VR experiences
I was asked on ABC radio today if there is an online directory of all the great VR projects (travel, tourism etc). Either that or a way for searching for VR projects by specific formats, directly. I...
View ArticlePresence, Place, Phenomenology, and VR
Originally posted on Immersion Rhetoric: I’ve found only one text that discusses the interconnection of communication and virtual reality exclusively – Biocca and Levy’s edited collection,...
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