iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE

Title: iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE
Alternative Title: i-MARECOLTURE
Description: eng Project’s i-MareCulture scope is to raise public awareness of European identity by focusing in maritime cultural heritage, which by default bridges different civilizations. In particular, i-MareCulture aims in bringing inherently unreachable underwater cultural heritage within digital reach of the wide public by implementing virtual visits, serious games with immersive technologies and underwater augmented reality. Scope of the project is to design, analyze, develop and validate pioneer applications and systems in the context of Virtual Museums through collaborative and innovative research from a diverse group of scientists, researchers, archaeologists, experts and museums.
The project i-MareCulture is unique, innovative and promising, contributing fully to the H2020 Framework and the Digital Agenda for Europe, a H2020 initiative, for New Skills and Jobs. In addition, this project abides by the EU’s strategy to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy by implementing the knowledge triangle by connecting the Education, Research and Industry by supporting and boosting innovative enterprise to develop their technological breakthroughs into viable products in the area of Virtual Museums and Digital Heritage, with real commercial potential.
Date: November 1, 2016 – January 31, 2020
Status: Concluded
Subject: eng SH6_6 Digital, computational, virtual and geospatial archaeologies; eng SH8_9 Science and Technologies for Cultural Heritage
Funded By: Horizon 2020 - 727153
Homepage: https://imareculture.eu
Project Member(s): Dimitrios Skarlatos
Project Contributor(s): Cyprus University of Technology; Concordia University; MUNI; Holografika; 3D Research; Aix Marseille Université; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Istituto Centrale per il Restauro