Museums in the Metaverse | Edify x Unviversity of Glasgow
Project Partners: Edify, University of Glasgow, Historic Environment Scotland, National Museums of Scotland, The Hunterian Museum
Project Period: April 2023 - ongoing (2 year, £5.6million project)
Project Status: Phase 1 Delivered (MVP), Phase 2 Ongoing - now led by someone else
Role: Project Director, Product Director, UX/UI Design Lead
Team: Edify team consisted of Product Manager, UX/UI Designer, Principal Developer, Software Engineer. UoG team consisted of Photogrammetry Technician, 3D Model Optimisation Technician, Principal Investigator: Prof Neil McDonnell.
Deliverables: Phase 1 MVP: Upgraded Edify platform and UX/UI to support import and sharing of high render quality cultural heritage content.
Project Overview | Making museums accessible to everyone and enabling curation of geographically disparate collections
This project is still ongoing, with the video embedded showcasing the MVP in use at a recent public engagement event. 90% of museum artefacts remain behind the scenes, inaccessible to the public. The logistics and sensitive handling of cultural heritage objects make access a time-consuming and labour intensive process.
Using cutting-edge photogrammetry equipment to scan museum objects up to 1 tonne in weight - University of Glasgow aims to create best practice object capture and 3D model optimisation processes to enable museums worldwide to capture and share - sensitively and securely - incredible objects in VR or AR. Edify provides the immersive platform and 3D object and environment import pipeline for creating metaverse experiences centered around museum objects and spaces.
